Bill Text: TX HB616 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to continuing education instruction for district clerks on impaneling petit and grand juries.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB616 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB616-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 616 | ||
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| relating to continuing education instruction for district clerks on | ||
| impaneling petit and grand juries. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 51.605, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
| (e) As part of the 20 hours of initial instruction and of | ||
| continuing education courses prescribed under this section, a | ||
| district clerk must complete one hour of instruction on impaneling | ||
| petit and grand juries. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 616 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 4, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 616 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 17, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
