Bill Text: TX HB669 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of a magistrate's name on certain signed orders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB669 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB669-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Canales, Moody, Collier H.B. No. 669
(Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa)
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2017;
May 2, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on State
Affairs; May 18, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 18, 2017, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the inclusion of a magistrate's name on certain signed
orders.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 2, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by adding Article 2.101 to read as follows:
Art. 2.101. MAGISTRATE'S NAME ON SIGNED ORDER. Any signed
order that is issued by a magistrate under this code or any signed
order pertaining to a criminal matter that is issued by a magistrate
under the Family Code, Government Code, or other law of this state
must include, with the magistrate's signature, the magistrate's
name in legible handwriting, legible typewritten form, or legible
stamp print.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act in adding
Article 2.101, Code of Criminal Procedure, applies to a signed
order issued by a magistrate on or after the effective date of this
Act. A signed order issued by a magistrate before the effective
date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the
order was issued, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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