Bill Text: TX HB2430 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the mileage expense reimbursement for certain temporary justices of the peace.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-07 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB2430 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2430-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the mileage expense reimbursement for certain temporary justices of the peace.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-07 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB2430 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2430-Comm_Sub.html
By: Murr (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) | H.B. No. 2430 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2021; | ||
May 13, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Jurisprudence; May 21, 2021, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 21, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the mileage expense reimbursement for certain temporary | ||
justices of the peace. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 27.055(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) If a justice is temporarily unable to perform official | ||
duties because of absence, recusal, illness, injury, or other | ||
disability, the county judge, on the judge's own motion or at the | ||
request of the justice of the peace, may appoint a qualified person | ||
to serve as temporary justice for the duration of the absence of the | ||
justice of the peace from the bench. The commissioners court shall | ||
compensate the temporary justice by the day, week, or month in an | ||
amount equal to the compensation of the regular justice. If the | ||
temporary justice is also serving as a justice of the peace in | ||
another justice precinct in the county, the commissioners court may | ||
authorize reimbursement for the mileage expenses incurred in | ||
performing the official duties of the temporary justice's | ||
appointment, notwithstanding Chapter 152, Local Government Code. A | ||
temporary justice has all the rights and powers of the justice of | ||
the peace while serving in that capacity but may not make personnel | ||
decisions about, or significant changes in, the justice of the | ||
peace's office. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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