SRC-JEC H.B. 2559 77(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 2559
77R5557 MRB-DBy: Jones, Elizabeth (Shapiro)
Intergovernmental Relations
5/4/2001
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Currently, municipal courts have jurisdiction beyond the areas of interest
of a city in cases related to the Alcoholic Beverage Code.  H.B. 2559
aligns two separate jurisdictions of municipal courts into a single
concurrent jurisdiction, limiting the power of a city beyond its
extraterritorial jurisdiction. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

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

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 29.003(b), Government Code, to provide that the
municipal court has concurrent jurisdiction with the justice court of a
precinct in which the municipality is located in all criminal cases arising
under state law that arise within the municipality's territorial limits or
property owned by the municipality located in the municipality's
extraterritorial jurisdiction and that: are punishable only by a fine as
described in Subsection (c); or arise under Chapter 106 (Provisions
Relating to Age), Alcoholic Beverage Code, and do not include confinement
as an authorized sanction. 

SECTION 2.  Makes application of this Act prospective.

SECTION 3.  Effective date: September 1, 2001.