1-1 By: McDonald (Senate Sponsor - Rosson) H.B. No. 2827
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993;
1-3 May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 11, 1993, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 11, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Henderson x
1-9 Harris of Tarrant x
1-10 Brown x
1-11 Harris of Dallas x
1-12 Luna x
1-13 Parker x
1-14 West x
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to the district courts and juvenile board of El Paso
1-18 County.
1-19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-20 SECTION 1. Section 152.0771(a), Human Resources Code, is
1-21 amended to read as follows:
1-22 (a) The juvenile board of El Paso County is composed of:
1-23 (1) the county judge;
1-24 (2) each family district court judge;
1-25 (3) each juvenile court judge; and
1-26 (4) up to five judges on the "El Paso Council of
1-27 Judges" to be elected by a majority vote of said council <the
1-28 county judge and the district judges in El Paso County>.
1-29 SECTION 2. Sections 152.0771(b), (g), and (h), Human
1-30 Resources Code, are repealed.
1-31 SECTION 3. Sections 24.167 and 24.635, Government Code, are
1-32 amended to read as follows:
1-33 Sec. 24.167. 327TH <65th> JUDICIAL DISTRICT (EL PASO
1-34 COUNTY). (a) The 327th <65th> Judicial District is composed of El
1-35 Paso County.
1-36 (b) The terms of the 327th <65th> District Court begin on
1-37 the first Mondays in February, April, June, September, October, and
1-38 December.
1-39 (c) Section 24.136, relating to the 34th District Court,
1-40 contains provisions applicable to both that court and the 327th
1-41 <65th> District Court.
1-42 Sec. 24.635. 65TH <327th> JUDICIAL DISTRICT (EL PASO
1-43 COUNTY). The 65th <327th> Judicial District is composed of El Paso
1-44 County.
1-45 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, except
1-46 that Section 3 of this Act takes effect September 1, 1996.
1-47 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-48 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-49 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-50 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-51 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-52 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-53 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-54 * * * * *
1-55 Austin,
1-56 Texas
1-57 May 11, 1993
1-58 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-59 President of the Senate
1-60 Sir:
1-61 We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B.
1-62 No. 2827, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-63 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-64 that it do pass and be printed.
1-65 Henderson,
1-66 Chairman
1-67 * * * * *
1-68 WITNESSES
2-1 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2827.