By Place H.B. No. 1648
74R6643 GWK-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the criminal jurisdiction of justice courts.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Article 4.11, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Art. 4.11. JURISDICTION OF JUSTICE COURTS. (a) Justices of
1-7 the peace shall have original jurisdiction in criminal cases:
1-8 (1) punishable by fine only; or
1-9 (2) punishable by:
1-10 (A) a fine; and
1-11 (B) as authorized by statute, a sanction not
1-12 consisting of confinement or imprisonment that is rehabilitative or
1-13 remedial in nature <where the fine to be imposed by law may not
1-14 exceed five hundred dollars>.
1-15 (b) The fact that a conviction in a justice court has as a
1-16 consequence the imposition of a penalty or sanction by an agency or
1-17 entity other than the court, such as a denial, suspension, or
1-18 revocation of a privilege, does not affect the original
1-19 jurisdiction of the justice court.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.