By: Gallego, Pete H.B. No. 1918
73R3691 MWV-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to disclosure of certain information by the State
1-3 Commission on Judicial Conduct.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 33.032, Government Code, is amended by
1-6 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (a) Except as provided by Section 33.034(d) and Subsections
1-9 <Subsection> (c) and (d) of this section, the papers filed with and
1-10 proceedings before the commission are confidential prior to the
1-11 convening of a formal hearing.
1-12 (d) The commission may disclose information it has regarding
1-13 an investigation of a judge or a public or private sanction issued
1-14 by the commission against a judge to the governor's appointments
1-15 office or an official of the government of the United States after
1-16 receipt of a written request from the office or the official,
1-17 accompanied by a written request from the affected judge granting
1-18 permission for release of all information. If investigative
1-19 information in the possession of the commission indicates a crime
1-20 may have been committed, the commission may report the information
1-21 to the proper law enforcement agency.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.