Enrolled Bill Summary

            Senate Bill 726 amends the Government Code to create the County Courts at Law No. 6 and No. 7 of El Paso County and designates these courts as criminal misdemeanor courts required to give preference to criminal misdemeanor cases, appeals or petitions relating to driver's licenses and certificates of title, certain bond cases, and appeals de novo from the municipal and justice courts. The act requires that at least four county courts at law be designated as criminal misdemeanor courts, unless funding is available to designate a county court at law as a family court or unless the criminal misdemeanor docket permits fewer. The act repeals a provision relating to the appointment of a magistrate judge on creation of the County Court at Law No. 6 of El Paso County.

            The act also includes the judge of the probate court of El Paso County on the El Paso Council of Judges.