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By:  West (Senate Sponsor - Bivins)                               H.B. No. 2261
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2003; 
May 7, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on State 
Affairs; May 23, 2003, reported adversely, with favorable 
Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 1; 
May 23, 2003, sent to printer.)


COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2261                                   By:  Ratliff


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to the Eighth, Ninth, and Eleventh courts of appeals 
districts.  
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Sections 22.201(i) and (l), Government Code, are                   

amended to read as follows:                                                   
	(i)  The Eighth Court of Appeals District is composed of the 
counties of Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Culberson, 
[Ector,] El Paso, [Gaines, Glasscock,] Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, 
Loving, [Martin, Midland,] Pecos, Presidio, Reagan, Reeves, 
Terrell, Upton, Ward, and Winkler.
	(l)  The Eleventh Court of Appeals District is composed of 
the counties of Baylor, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, 
Dawson, Eastland, Ector, Erath, Fisher, Gaines, Glasscock,
Haskell, Howard, Jones, Knox, Martin, Midland, Mitchell, Nolan, 
Palo Pinto, Scurry, Shackelford, Stephens, Stonewall, Taylor, and 
Throckmorton.
	SECTION 2.  Section 22.216(h), Government Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(h)  The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Court of Appeals 
District consists of a chief justice and two [three] justices.
	SECTION 3.  Section 22.216(i), Government Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(i)  The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Court of Appeals 
District consists of a chief justice and three [two] justices.
	SECTION 4.  Notwithstanding Section 22.216(h), Government 
Code, as amended by this Act, the Eighth Court of Appeals consists 
of a chief justice and three justices until a vacancy occurs or the 
term of a justice expires, whichever occurs first.  Section 
22.216(h), Government Code, as amended by this Act, does not affect 
the office of a justice of the Eighth Court of Appeals serving on 
September 1, 2003, and the justice, unless otherwise removed, 
continues to serve for the term to which the justice was elected.
	SECTION 5.  This Act does not affect the jurisdiction on 
appeal of any case from a county that is transferred by this Act to a 
different court of appeals district if the notice of appeal for the 
case was filed before the effective date of this Act in the 
appropriate court of appeals district.
	SECTION 6.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this 
section, this Act takes effect September 1, 2003.
	(b)  Section 3 of this Act takes effect January 1, 2005.                       



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