By:  Goodman                                          H.B. No. 1275
       73R3237 RJA-F
                                 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.