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.
1-40 * * * * *
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
1-53 * * * * *
1-54 WITNESSES