By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1610
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the manner in which the Clerk of the Municipal Court of
    1-2  Austin is required to file and maintain original complaints and
    1-3  other court papers.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 30.330, Government Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  The clerk of the municipal courts of record shall file
    1-8  the original complaints and the original of other papers for <in>
    1-9  each case, under the direction of the presiding municipal judge.
   1-10  The file original papers constitute the records of the courts and a
   1-11  separate record book is not required.
   1-12        (b)  The clerk shall keep a file and other records <separate
   1-13  folder> for each case which contains at least: <and shall note on
   1-14  the outside of the folder>
   1-15              (1)  the style of the case;
   1-16              (2)  the nature of the charged offense;
   1-17              (3)  the dates that the warrant was issued and
   1-18  returned;
   1-19              (4)  the date the examination or trial was held;
   1-20              (5)  whether trial was held by jury or before a judge;
   1-21              (6)  trial settings;
   1-22              (7)  any verdict of the jury;
   1-23              (8)  any judgment of the court;
    2-1              (9)  any motion for a new trial and the decision on the
    2-2  motion;
    2-3              (10)  whether an appeal was taken; and
    2-4              (11)  the date and manner in which the judgment and
    2-5  sentence were enforced.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.