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House Bill 984 |
House Author: Truitt |
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Effective: 5-19-11 |
Senate Sponsor: Harris |
House Bill 984 amends the Government Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure to authorize a municipality to enter into an agreement with a contiguous municipality or a municipality with boundaries that are within one-half mile of the municipality seeking to enter the agreement to establish concurrent jurisdiction of the municipal courts in the municipalities and provide original jurisdiction to a municipal court in which a case is brought as if the municipal court were located in the municipality in which the case arose. The bill makes this provision applicable to certain criminal cases arising under municipal ordinances or a resolution, rule, or order of a joint board operating an airport and to cases arising from offenses related to the seizure of cruelly treated animals or the failure to attend school.