By:  Naishtat                                         H.B. No. 1989
       73R5475 MWV-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to criminal law magistrates in Travis County.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Article 2.09, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Art. 2.09.  WHO ARE MAGISTRATES.  Each of the following
    1-7  officers is a magistrate within the meaning of this Code:  The
    1-8  justices of the Supreme Court, the judges of the Court of Criminal
    1-9  Appeals, the justices of the Courts of Appeals, the judges of the
   1-10  District Court, the magistrates appointed by the judges of the
   1-11  district courts of Bexar County, Dallas County, <or> Tarrant
   1-12  County, or Travis County that give preference to criminal cases,
   1-13  the magistrates appointed by the judges of the district courts of
   1-14  Lubbock County, and the magistrates appointed by the judges of the
   1-15  criminal district courts of Dallas County or Tarrant County, the
   1-16  county judges, the judges of the county courts at law, judges of
   1-17  the county criminal courts, the judges of statutory probate courts,
   1-18  the justices of the peace, the mayors and recorders and the judges
   1-19  of the municipal courts of incorporated cities or towns.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  Article 4.01, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-21  amended to read as follows:
   1-22        Art. 4.01.  WHAT COURTS HAVE CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.  The
   1-23  following courts have jurisdiction in criminal actions:
   1-24              1.  The Court of Criminal Appeals;
    2-1              2.  Courts of appeals;
    2-2              3.  The district courts;
    2-3              4.  The criminal district courts;
    2-4              5.  The magistrates appointed by the judges of the
    2-5  district courts of Bexar County, Dallas County, <or> Tarrant
    2-6  County, or Travis County that give preference to criminal cases and
    2-7  the magistrates appointed by the judges of the criminal district
    2-8  courts of Dallas County or Tarrant County;
    2-9              6.  The county courts;
   2-10              7.  All county courts at law with criminal
   2-11  jurisdiction;
   2-12              8.  County criminal courts;
   2-13              9.  Justice courts;
   2-14              10.  Municipal courts; and
   2-15              11.  The magistrates appointed by the judges of the
   2-16  district courts of Lubbock County.
   2-17        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-18        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.