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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