1-1  By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1610
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 22, 1995; March 23, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
    1-4  Relations; April 27, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 27, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the manner in which the clerk of the municipal courts
    1-9  of Austin is required to file and maintain original complaints and
   1-10  other court papers.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Section 30.330, Government Code, is amended to
   1-13  read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 30.330.  FILING OF ORIGINAL PAPERS.  (a)  The clerk of
   1-15  the municipal courts of record shall file the original complaints
   1-16  <complaint> and the original of other papers for <in> each case
   1-17  under the direction of the presiding municipal judge.  The filed
   1-18  original papers constitute the records of the courts and a separate
   1-19  record book is not required.
   1-20        (b)  The clerk shall keep a file and other records <separate
   1-21  folder> for each case which contain at least <and shall note on the
   1-22  outside of the folder>:
   1-23              (1)  the style of the case;
   1-24              (2)  the nature of the charged offense;
   1-25              (3)  the dates that the warrant was issued and
   1-26  returned;
   1-27              (4)  the date the examination or trial was held;
   1-28              (5)  whether trial was held by jury or before a judge;
   1-29              (6)  trial settings;
   1-30              (7)  any verdict of the jury;
   1-31              (8)  any judgment of the court;
   1-32              (9)  any motion for a new trial and the decision on the
   1-33  motion;
   1-34              (10)  whether an appeal was taken; and
   1-35              (11)  the date and manner in which the judgment and
   1-36  sentence were enforced.
   1-37        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-38        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-39  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-40  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-41  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-42  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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