Bill Text: TX HB4147 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a defendant's right to appeal from a judgment or conviction in a municipal court of record.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-01 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB4147 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB4147-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 4147 | ||
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| relating to a defendant's right to appeal from a judgment or | ||
| conviction in a municipal court of record. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 30.00014(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A defendant has the right of appeal from a judgment or | ||
| conviction in a municipal court of record. The state has the right | ||
| to appeal as provided by Article 44.01, Code of Criminal Procedure. | ||
| The county criminal courts or county criminal courts of appeal in | ||
| the county in which the municipality is located or the municipal | ||
| courts of appeal have jurisdiction of appeals from a municipal | ||
| court of record. If there is no county criminal court, county | ||
| criminal court of appeal, or municipal court of appeal, the county | ||
| courts at law have jurisdiction of an appeal. If a county does not | ||
| have a county court at law under Chapter 25, the county court has | ||
| jurisdiction of any appeal. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act is intended | ||
| only to clarify existing law with respect to a judgment or | ||
| conviction that occurs in a municipal court of record and is | ||
| appealed to a county court. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 4147 was passed by the House on May 4, | ||
| 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 4147 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
