1-1     By:  Jones of Bexar (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro)        H.B. No. 2559
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2001;
 1-3     April 24, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 10, 2001, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 10, 2001, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the jurisdiction of a municipal court.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1. Section 29.003(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           (b)  The municipal court has concurrent jurisdiction with the
1-14     justice court of a precinct in which the municipality is located in
1-15     all criminal cases arising under state law that[:]
1-16                 [(1)]  arise within the municipality's territorial
1-17     limits or property owned by the municipality located in the
1-18     municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction and that:
1-19                 (1)  are punishable only by a fine, as defined in
1-20     Subsection (c); or
1-21                 (2)  arise under Chapter 106, Alcoholic Beverage Code,
1-22     and do not include confinement as an authorized sanction.
1-23           SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
1-24     29.003(b), Government Code, applies only to the jurisdiction of a
1-25     municipal court in a criminal case for which the trial begins on or
1-26     after September 1, 2001.  The jurisdiction of a municipal court in
1-27     a criminal case for which the trial begins before September 1,
1-28     2001, is governed by the law in effect when the trial begins, and
1-29     the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-30           SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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