BILL ANALYSIS



S.B. 1610
By: Barrientos (Naishtat/Maxey/Combs/Greenberg/Dukes)
May 12, 1995
Committee Report (Unamended)


BACKGROUND

     Section 30.330, Texas Government Code, relates to the manner
in which the clerk of the municipal court of Austin is required to
file and maintain original complaints and other court papers.  The
existing statute provides that the clerk shall keep a separate
folder for each case and note on the outside of the folder the
style of the case, nature of the case, and other pertinent
information.  This a laborious process because the municipal court
of Austin maintains several hundred thousand cases and complaints
each year.


PURPOSE

     This bill sets forth the manner in which the clerk of the
Municipal Court of Austin is required to file and maintain original
complaints and other court papers.


RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

     It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not grant
any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department,
institution, or agency.


SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

     SECTION 1 amends Section 30.330, Government Code, as follows:
           Subsec. (a) is amended to make nonsubstantive changes.
           Subsec. (b) is amended to require the clerk of a
     municipal court of record to keep a file and other records for
     each case which contains at least certain pertinent facts of
     the case.

     SECTION 2.  Effective date.

     SECTION 3.  Emergency clause.


SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE ACTION

     Pursuant to announcement made on the House Floor while the
House was still in session on May 12, 1995, the Committee on
Judicial Affairs met in a formal meeting on May 12, 1995, to
consider S.B. 1610.  The Chair laid out S.B. 1610 and explained the
bill.  Rep. Goodman moved to report S.B. 1610 favorably back to the
full House, without amendment, with the recommendation that it do
pass, be printed and sent to the Committee on Local and Consent
Calendars.  The motion prevailed by the following record vote:  5
ayes, 0 nays, 0 PNV abd 4 absent.