HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Judicial Affairs

TIME & DATE:  2:00PM or upon final adjourn./recess
             Monday, February 26, 2001

PLACE: E2.028

CHAIR: Rep. Senfronia Thompson

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HB 4            Gallego
Relating to nonpartisan elections for statewide judicial office, to
the regulation of political contributions and expenditures in
connection with statewide judicial office, and to the public
financing of campaigns for statewide judicial office; providing
civil and criminal penalties.

HB 62            Wolens
Relating to the authority of a judge of a district or county court
to try a civil case at an institution of higher education.

HB 65            Pitts
Relating to the assignment of the judge of the 378th District Court
as a visiting judge.

HB 167            Gallego
Relating to the regulation of political contributions to certain
unopposed judicial candidates; providing a civil penalty.

HB 497            Chisum
Relating to the application of the professional prosecutors law to
the district attorney for the 31st Judicial District.

HB 555            Mowery
Relating to the elimination of straight-party voting in connection
with certain judicial races.

HB 900            Thompson
Relating to the administration of statutory probate courts and to
the assignment of statutory probate court judges.

HB 1015            Gallego
Relating to the application of the professional prosecutors law to
the district attorney for the 83rd Judicial District.

HB 1033            Thompson
Relating to requiring the Sunset Advisory Commission to study the
district boundaries of the courts of appeals and other matters
affecting the distribution of workload within and among those
courts.

HB 1035            Thompson
Relating to the educational requirements for certain justices of
the peace.

HB 1117            Goodman
Relating to petition requirements for an application for a place on
the general primary election ballot for certain judicial
candidates.

HB 1473            Gallego
Relating to repealing the statutes governing the decennial
reapportionment of the judicial districts by the Judicial Districts
Board.

HB 1518            Junell / et al.
Relating to the appointment and nonpartisan retention or rejection
of appellate justices and judges and to elimination of a
straight-party vote in connection with district judges.

HJR 6            Junell / et al.
Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for gubernatorial
appointment to fill vacancies in the offices of appellate justices
and judges and for nonpartisan retention elections for those
justices and judges.

HJR 17            Gallego
Proposing a constitutional amendment creating a vacancy in a
judicial office if a judge or justice becomes a candidate for a
public elective office other than a judicial office.

HJR 61            Gallego
Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional
requirement for decennial reapportionment of the judicial districts
and to abolish the Judicial Districts Board.

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