SRC-JBJ S.B. 917 76(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 917
76R7112 RJA-DBy: Wentworth
Jurisprudence
3/18/1999
As Filed


DIGEST 

Currently, judicial districts and administrative judicial districts are
composed of counties.  The 33rd Judicial District has experiences such
large population increases in the past few years that reassigning certain
counties would ease the burden on the 33rd District Court.  S.B. 917 would
reassign Mason County out of the 33rd Judicial District and the Third
Administrative Judicial Region and into the 198th Judicial District and the
Sixth Administrative Region, and would reassign Concho County out of the
198th Judicial District into the 119th Judicial District.  

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 917 modifies the composition of the 33rd and 198th
judicial districts and the Third and Sixth administrative judicial regions. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 24.135, Government Code, as follows:

Sec. 24.135.  New heading:  33RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT (BLANCO, BURNET, LLANO,
AND SAN SABA COUNTIES).  Provides that the 33rd Judicial District is
composed of Blanco, Burnet, Llano, and San Saba counties.  Deletes Mason
County as a county in which the 33rd District Court term begins.  

SECTION 2.  Amends Section 24.377, Government Code, as follows:

Sec. 24.377.  New heading:  198th JUDICIAL DISTRICT (KERR, KIMBLE,
MCCULLOCH, MASON, AND MENARD COUNTIES).  Provides that the 198th Judicial
District is composed of Kerr, Kimble, McCulloch, Mason, and Menard
counties.   

SECTION 3.  Amends Sections 74.042(d) and (g), Government Code, to include
Mason County as one of the counties of which the Third Administrative
Judicial Region is composed.  Includes Mason County in the Sixth
Administrative Judicial Region. 

SECTION 4.  Effective date: September 1, 1999.