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.