Bill Text: TX SB1214 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Perry | S.B. No. 1214 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 2017; March 9, 2017, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; | ||
| April 26, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, | ||
| Nays 0; April 26, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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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. | ||
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