1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the authority of criminal law hearing officers in
 1-3     certain counties to enforce certain judgments and orders.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Section 54.856(a), Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  A criminal law hearing officer appointed under this
 1-8     subchapter has limited concurrent jurisdiction over criminal cases
 1-9     filed in the district courts, county criminal courts at law, and
1-10     justice courts of the county.  The jurisdiction of the criminal law
1-11     hearing officer is limited to:
1-12                 (1)  determining probable cause for further detention
1-13     of any person detained on a criminal complaint, information, or
1-14     indictment filed in the district courts, county criminal courts at
1-15     law, or justice courts of the county;
1-16                 (2)  committing the defendant to jail, discharging the
1-17     defendant from custody, or admitting the defendant to bail, as the
1-18     law and facts of the case require;
1-19                 (3)  issuing search warrants and arrest warrants as
1-20     provided by law for magistrates; [and]
1-21                 (4)  as to criminal cases filed in justice courts,
1-22     disposing of cases as provided by law, other than by trial, and
1-23     collecting fines and enforcing judgments and orders of the justice
1-24     courts in criminal cases; and
 2-1                 (5)  enforcing judgments and orders of the county
 2-2     criminal courts at law in criminal cases.
 2-3           SECTION 2. Section 54.858, Government Code, is amended by
 2-4     adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
 2-5           (f)  A criminal law hearing officer may enforce judgments and
 2-6     orders of the county criminal courts at law in criminal cases.
 2-7           SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3664 was passed by the House on April
         27, 2001, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3664 was passed by the Senate on May
         22, 2001, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0, 1 present, not
         voting.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  __________________________
                              Date
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                            Governor