C.S.H.B. 3081 78(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


C.S.H.B. 3081
By: Casteel
County Affairs
Committee Report (Substituted)



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Under Section 292.002, Local Government Code, a county is prohibited from
creating a court annex outside of the county seat as well as storing
records in a place other than the county seat.  In certain cases, as in
Bandera County, the county courthouse reaches capacity and cannot expand
to accommodate the required offices and accompanying documents nor locate
an additional location within the county seat. 

CSHB 3081 allows the commissioners court to create an auxiliary county
seat outside the boundaries of the county seat to hold court proceedings
and store the records of the court. 


RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or
institution. 

ANALYSIS

CSHB 3081 amends Section 292.002 (a), Local Government Code, relating to
auxiliary county seats. 

CSHB 3081 permits the commissioners court of a county to authorize places
in the county but outside the county seat as auxiliary courts for holding
court proceedings in any courts and designate those places as auxiliary
county seats for this purpose.  The records of any court sitting in an
auxiliary seat, including the records of the clerk of the court, may be
kept in the auxiliary county seat.  


EFFECTIVE DATE

Upon passage or September 1, 2003.


COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL TO SUBSTITUTE

CSHB 3081 is a Legislative Council draft of the bill as originally filed
with no substantive changes.