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House Bill 1182 |
House Author: Harless |
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Effective: 9-1-23 |
Senate Sponsor: Whitmire |
House Bill 1182 amends the Government Code to specify that the judicial statistics gathered by the Texas Judicial Council (TJC) from the state's judges and court officials and reported to the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System (OCA) must include monthly court activity statistics and case‑level information on the amount and character of the business transacted by each trial court in Texas. The bill specifies the statistics that must be included in the monthly information gathered by TJC for each trial court in a county with a population of at least one million. The bill requires OCA to publish in a searchable format on its public website the information for each court from the monthly statistics reports submitted to OCA. The bill also requires a court official for each court in a county with a population greater than one million to submit a copy of each such monthly report for the court to the appropriate county official and requires the county to publish that information in a searchable format on the county's public website. The bill removes a requirement for copies of monthly reports to be maintained in the office of the appropriate district or county clerk for a period of at least two years and be available to the public for inspection and reproduction.