1-1 By: Bernsen S.B. No. 495
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 31, 2001; February 1, 2001,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 February 13, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
1-5 5, Nays 0; February 13, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the educational requirements for certain justices of
1-9 the peace.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 27.005, Government Code,
1-12 is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) For purposes of removal under Chapter 87, Local
1-14 Government Code [Title 100, Revised Statutes], "incompetency" in
1-15 the case of a justice of the peace [who is not a licensed attorney]
1-16 includes the failure of the justice to successfully complete:
1-17 (1) within one year after the date the justice [he] is
1-18 first elected, an 80-hour [a 40-hour] course in the performance of
1-19 the justice's [his] duties; and
1-20 (2) each following year, a 20-hour course.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001, and
1-22 applies only to a justice of the peace first elected on or after
1-23 that date. A justice of the peace elected before the effective
1-24 date of this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately
1-25 before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in
1-26 effect for that purpose.
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