Bill Text: TX HB616 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
By: Vasut, Plesa (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) | H.B. No. 616 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2023; | ||
May 1, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Jurisprudence; May 10, 2023, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 10, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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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. | ||
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