Bill Text: TX HB3136 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the jurisdiction and powers of a criminal law hearing officer in Cameron County.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-19 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB3136 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3136-Introduced.html
83R7948 RWG-D | ||
By: Lucio III | H.B. No. 3136 |
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relating to the jurisdiction and powers of a criminal law hearing | ||
officer in Cameron County. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 54.1356(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) A criminal law hearing officer appointed under this | ||
subchapter has limited concurrent jurisdiction over criminal cases | ||
filed in the district courts, statutory county courts, and justice | ||
courts of the county. The jurisdiction of the criminal law hearing | ||
officer is limited to: | ||
(1) determining probable cause for further detention | ||
of any person detained on a criminal complaint, information, or | ||
indictment filed in the district courts, statutory county courts, | ||
or justice courts of the county; | ||
(2) committing the defendant to jail, discharging the | ||
defendant from custody, or admitting the defendant to bail, as the | ||
law and facts of the case require; | ||
(3) issuing search warrants and arrest warrants as | ||
provided by law for magistrates; | ||
(4) as to criminal cases filed in justice courts, | ||
disposing of cases as provided by law, other than by trial, and | ||
collecting fines and enforcing judgments and orders of the justice | ||
courts in criminal cases; | ||
(5) hearing, considering, and ruling on writs of | ||
habeas corpus filed under Article 17.151, Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure; [ |
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(6) on motion of the district attorney: | ||
(A) dismissing a criminal case when the arresting | ||
agency has not timely filed the offense report with the district | ||
attorney; and | ||
(B) reducing the amount of bond on prisoners held | ||
at the county jail whose cases have not been filed in a district | ||
court or a statutory county court; and | ||
(7) presiding over an extradition proceeding under | ||
Article 51.13, Code of Criminal Procedure. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 54.1358, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: | ||
(f) In accordance with Article 26.13, Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure, a criminal law hearing officer may accept a plea of | ||
guilty or nolo contendere from a defendant charged with a | ||
misdemeanor offense. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |