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.