Bill Text: TX HB1559 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the retention, storage, and destruction of certain court documents.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 15-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-30 - Effective immediately [HB1559 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1559-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1559 | ||
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| relating to the retention, storage, and destruction of certain | ||
| court documents. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 441, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subchapter B to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER B. COURT DOCUMENTS | ||
| Sec. 441.025. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
| (1) "Commission" means the Texas State Library and | ||
| Archives Commission. | ||
| (2) "Court document" means any instrument, document, | ||
| paper, or other record filed with, otherwise presented to, or | ||
| produced by a court in this state. | ||
| Sec. 441.026. RETENTION, STORAGE, AND DESTRUCTION OF | ||
| CERTAIN COURT DOCUMENTS. (a) The commission shall adopt rules for | ||
| the retention, storage, and destruction of a court document filed | ||
| with, otherwise presented to, or produced by a court in this state | ||
| before January 1, 1951. | ||
| (b) A court in this state may not destroy a court document | ||
| described by Subsection (a) except as provided by rules of the | ||
| commission. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1559 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 26, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1559 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0 | ||
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| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
