Bill Text: TX SB1881 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the composition of the 12th and 369th Judicial Districts, the redesignation of the district attorney for the 12th Judicial District as the district attorney for the 369th Judicial District, and the composition of the Leon County juvenile board.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (N/A - Dead) 2013-04-09 - Referred to Jurisprudence [SB1881 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB1881-Introduced.html

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83R7227 YDB-D
By: Nichols S.B. No. 1881

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the composition of the 12th and 369th Judicial
Districts, the redesignation of the district attorney for the 12th
Judicial District as the district attorney for the 369th Judicial
District, and the composition of the Leon County juvenile board.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 24.113, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 24.113. 12TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (GRIMES, [LEON,]
MADISON, AND WALKER COUNTIES). [(a)] The 12th Judicial District is
composed of Grimes, [Leon,] Madison, and Walker counties.
[(b) The terms of the 12th District Court in each county of
the district begin on the first Mondays in January and July.]
SECTION 2. Section 24.514, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 24.514. 369TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (ANDERSON, [AND]
CHEROKEE, AND LEON COUNTIES). The 369th Judicial District is
composed of Anderson, [and] Cherokee, and Leon counties.
SECTION 3. Section 43.106, Government Code, is redesignated
as Section 43.1815, Government Code, and amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 43.1815 [43.106]. 369TH [12TH] JUDICIAL DISTRICT. (a)
The voters of Leon County elect a district attorney for the 369th
[12th] Judicial District who represents the state in that district
court only in Leon County.
(b) The district attorney of the 369th [12th] Judicial
District also represents the state in all criminal and civil
actions in which the state is interested that arise in the 87th
Judicial District in Leon County.
(c) The district attorney may, with the consent of the
Commissioners Court of Leon County, appoint a deputy district
attorney.
(d) The Commissioners Court of Leon County shall pay the
salary and traveling expenses of the deputy district attorney from
the officers' salary fund. The salary shall be paid in equal monthly
installments and expense claims shall be paid at the end of each
month. The salary is subject to participation fully in the Texas
County and District Retirement System.
SECTION 4. Section 46.002, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 46.002. PROSECUTORS SUBJECT TO CHAPTER. This chapter
applies to the state prosecuting attorney, all county prosecutors,
and the following state prosecutors:
(1) the district attorneys for Kenedy and Kleberg
Counties and for the 1st, 2nd, 8th, 9th, [12th,] 18th, 21st, 23rd,
25th, 26th, 27th, 29th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 35th, 36th, 38th,
39th, 42nd, 43rd, 46th, 47th, 49th, 50th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 63rd,
64th, 66th, 69th, 70th, 76th, 81st, 83rd, 84th, 85th, 88th, 90th,
97th, 100th, 105th, 106th, 109th, 110th, 112th, 118th, 119th,
123rd, 142nd, 143rd, 145th, 156th, 159th, 173rd, 196th, 198th,
216th, 220th, 229th, 235th, 253rd, 258th, 259th, 266th, 268th,
271st, 286th, 329th, 344th, 349th, 355th, 369th, and 506th judicial
districts;
(2) the criminal district attorneys for the counties
of Anderson, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Bowie, Brazoria, Caldwell,
Calhoun, Cass, Collin, Comal, Dallas, Deaf Smith, Denton, Eastland,
Fannin, Galveston, Grayson, Gregg, Harrison, Hays, Hidalgo,
Jasper, Jefferson, Kaufman, Lubbock, McLennan, Madison, Navarro,
Newton, Panola, Polk, Randall, Rockwall, San Jacinto, Smith,
Tarrant, Taylor, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt, Victoria, Walker,
Waller, Wichita, Wood, and Yoakum; and
(3) the county attorneys performing the duties of
district attorneys in the counties of Andrews, Callahan, Cameron,
Castro, Colorado, Crosby, Ellis, Falls, Freestone, Lamar, Lamb,
Lampasas, Lee, Limestone, Marion, Milam, Morris, Ochiltree,
Orange, Rains, Red River, Robertson, Rusk, Swisher, Terry, Webb,
and Willacy.
SECTION 5. Section 152.1511(a), Human Resources Code, as
amended by Chapters 531 (H.B. 956), 1152 (H.B. 3045), and 1352 (S.B.
1189), Acts of the 79th Legislature, Regular Session, 2005, is
reenacted to read as follows:
(a) The juvenile board of Leon County is composed of the
county judge and the district judges in Leon County.
SECTION 6. (a) The local administrative district judge
shall transfer all cases from Leon County that are pending in the
12th District Court on September 1, 2013, to the 369th District
Court.
(b) When a case is transferred as provided by Subsection (a)
of this section, all processes, writs, bonds, recognizances, or
other obligations issued from the 12th District Court are
returnable to the 369th District Court as if originally issued by
that court. The obligees on all bonds and recognizances taken in
and for the 12th District Court and all witnesses summoned to appear
in the 12th District Court are required to appear before the 369th
District Court as if originally required to appear before that
court.
SECTION 7. The person serving as district attorney for the
12th Judicial District on September 1, 2013, unless otherwise
removed from office, continues to serve in that office as
redesignated as the district attorney for the 369th Judicial
District for the term to which elected or appointed.
SECTION 8. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.