1-1  By:  Goodman (Senate Sponsor - Harris of Tarrant)     H.B. No. 1275
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 7, 1993;
    1-3  April 13, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Criminal Justice; April 28, 1993, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 28, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Whitmire           x                               
    1-9        Brown              x                               
   1-10        Nelson             x                               
   1-11        Sibley                                         x   
   1-12        Sims               x                               
   1-13        Turner             x                               
   1-14        West                                           x   
   1-15                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-16                                AN ACT
   1-17  relating to appeals from a judgment of the municipal courts of
   1-18  record in Fort Worth.
   1-19        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-20        SECTION 1.  Section 30.153(a), Government Code, is amended to
   1-21  read as follows:
   1-22        (a)  A defendant has the right of appeal from a judgment of
   1-23  conviction in a municipal court of record as provided by this
   1-24  subchapter.  The state has the <no> right to <an> appeal as
   1-25  provided by Article 44.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, and for
   1-26  purposes of that appeal, the prosecuting attorney is the city
   1-27  attorney <or to a new trial>.  The county court that has appellate
   1-28  criminal jurisdiction shall hear the appeal.
   1-29        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-30  applies only to the appeal of an order, ruling of law, or sentence
   1-31  entered on or after that date.  The appeal of an order, ruling of
   1-32  law, or sentence entered before the effective date of this Act is
   1-33  covered by the law in effect when the order, ruling, or sentence
   1-34  was entered, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-35        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-36  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-37  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-38  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-39  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-41                                                         Austin,
   1-42  Texas
   1-43                                                         April 28, 1993
   1-44  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-45  President of the Senate
   1-46  Sir:
   1-47  We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred H.B.
   1-48  No. 1275, have had the same under consideration, and I am
   1-49  instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
   1-50  that it do pass and be printed.
   1-51                                                         Whitmire,
   1-52  Chairman
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   1-54                               WITNESSES