Bill Text: TX SB1214 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a succession plan for a regional public defender's office that primarily handles capital cases.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [SB1214 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1214-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 1214 |
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relating to a succession plan for a regional public defender's | ||
office that primarily handles capital cases. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 79, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 79.042 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 79.042. SUCCESSION PLAN FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC DEFENDERS' | ||
OFFICES. (a) In this section, "governmental entity" has the | ||
meaning assigned by Article 26.044, Code of Criminal Procedure. | ||
(b) As a condition of a grant awarded by the commission to a | ||
regional public defender's office that primarily handles capital | ||
cases, the commission may establish for the public defender's | ||
office a succession plan to take effect only if the commissioners | ||
court of the county in which the central administrative office of | ||
the public defender's office is located ceases for any reason to be | ||
a party to the agreement creating or designating the public | ||
defender's office. | ||
(c) A succession plan established under Subsection (b) may: | ||
(1) authorize the commission to designate a | ||
governmental entity to administer the regional public defender's | ||
office; | ||
(2) require the governmental entity designated under | ||
Subdivision (1) to establish an oversight board for the regional | ||
public defender's office under Article 26.045, Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure; and | ||
(3) require the regional public defender's office to | ||
comply with any rules adopted by the commission for the | ||
administration of the public defender's office. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1214 passed the Senate on | ||
May 4, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1214 passed the House on | ||
May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, two | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |