73R3237 RJA-F
By Goodman H.B. No. 1275
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to appeals from a judgment of the municipal courts of
1-3 record in Fort Worth.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 30.153(a), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) A defendant has the right of appeal from a judgment of
1-8 conviction in a municipal court of record as provided by this
1-9 subchapter. The state has the <no> right to <an> appeal as
1-10 provided by Article 44.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, and for
1-11 purposes of that appeal, the prosecuting attorney is the city
1-12 attorney <or to a new trial>. The county court that has appellate
1-13 criminal jurisdiction shall hear the appeal.
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
1-15 applies only to the appeal of an order, ruling of law, or sentence
1-16 entered on or after that date. The appeal of an order, ruling of
1-17 law, or sentence entered before the effective date of this Act is
1-18 covered by the law in effect when the order, ruling, or sentence
1-19 was entered, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.