Bill Text: TX HB984 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 984 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to agreements between neighboring municipalities regarding jurisdiction of cases in municipal courts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-05-19 - Effective immediately [HB984 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB984-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 984




	AN ACT
	relating to agreements between neighboring municipalities
	regarding jurisdiction of cases in municipal courts.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 29.003, Government Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
	(i) A municipality may enter into an agreement with a
	contiguous municipality or a municipality with boundaries that are
	within one-half mile of the municipality seeking to enter into the
	agreement to establish concurrent jurisdiction of the municipal
	courts in the municipalities and provide original jurisdiction to a
	municipal court in which a case is brought as if the municipal court
	were located in the municipality in which the case arose, for:
	(1) all cases in which either municipality has
	jurisdiction under Subsection (a); and
	(2) cases that arise under Section 821.022, Health and
	Safety Code, or Section 25.094, Education Code.
	SECTION 2. Article 4.14, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
	amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
	(g) A municipality may enter into an agreement with a
	contiguous municipality or a municipality with boundaries that are
	within one-half mile of the municipality seeking to enter into the
	agreement to establish concurrent jurisdiction of the municipal
	courts in the municipalities and provide original jurisdiction to a
	municipal court in which a case is brought as if the municipal court
	were located in the municipality in which the case arose, for:
	(1) all cases in which either municipality has
	jurisdiction under Subsection (a); and
	(2) cases that arise under Section 821.022, Health and
	Safety Code, or Section 25.094, Education Code.
	SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
	an offense committed or conduct that occurs on or after the
	effective date of an agreement to establish concurrent jurisdiction
	between municipalities authorized under Section 29.003(i),
	Government Code, as added by this Act, or under Article 4.14(g),
	Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by this Act. An offense
	committed or conduct that occurs before that date is governed by the
	law in effect when the offense was committed or the conduct
	occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that
	purpose. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed or
	conduct occurs before the effective date of the agreement if any
	element of the offense or conduct occurs before that date.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2011.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 984 was passed by the House on March
	30, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 984 on May 5, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 1
	present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 984 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 3, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor