SRC-VRA S.B. 1564 78(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 1564
By: Madla
Jurisprudence
4/7/2003
As Filed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Currently, county courthouses are prohibited from creating a court annex
outside of the county seat and are prohibited from storing records in a
place other than the county seat.  As proposed, S.B. 1564 enables a county
to build an office annex outside the boundaries of the county seat and to
store county documents in the facility. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to
a state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 292.002, Local Government Code, as follows: 

(a)  Makes a conforming change.

(b)  Authorizes the commissioners court, notwithstanding any other
provision of the law, in any courts including districts courts to
designate those places as auxiliary county seats for the purpose of
holding court proceedings.  Authorizes the records of any court sitting in
an auxiliary court seat, including the records of the clerk of the court,
to be kept in the auxiliary county seat. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date:  upon passage or September 1, 2003.