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House Bill 2741 |
House Author: Smith |
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Effective: 9-1-23 |
Senate Sponsor: Hinojosa et al. |
House Bill 2741 amends the Government Code to include a juvenile family drug court program among the programs considered specialty courts for purposes of the Specialty Courts Advisory Council. The bill expands the duties of the council to include making recommendations to the Texas Judicial Council and the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System regarding specialty court best practices. The bill changes the council's composition by removing the specification that the four members representing specialty courts each have experience as a judge for a distinct type of specialty court and specifying instead that those four members have experience as the judge of at least one specialty court.