By Thompson H.B. No. 3664
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.