Bill Text: TX SB2536 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the operation and administration of practice and procedure related to proceedings in the judicial branch of state government.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Criminal Justice [SB2536 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2536-Introduced.html
| By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 2536 | |
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| relating to the operation and administration of practice and | ||
| procedure related to proceedings in the judicial branch of state | ||
| government. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 124.001(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b) If a defendant who was arrested for or charged with, | ||
| convicted of, or placed on deferred adjudication community | ||
| supervision for any misdemeanor or felony offense successfully | ||
| completes a veterans treatment court program, after notice to, and | ||
| agreement of, the attorney representing the state and a hearing in | ||
| the veterans treatment court at which that court determines that a | ||
| dismissal is in the best interest of justice, for any justice | ||
| involved event, the veterans treatment court shall provide to the | ||
| court in which the criminal case is pending information about the | ||
| dismissal and shall include all of the information required about | ||
| the defendant for a petition for expunction under Section 2(b), | ||
| Article 55.02, Code of Criminal Procedure. The court in which the | ||
| criminal case is pending shall dismiss the case against the | ||
| defendant and: | ||
| (1) if that trial court is a district court, the court may, | ||
| with the consent of the attorney representing the state, enter an | ||
| order of expunction on behalf of the defendant under Section | ||
| 1a(a-1), Article 55.02, Code of Criminal Procedure; or | ||
| (2) if that trial court is not a district court, the | ||
| court may, with the consent of the attorney representing the state, | ||
| forward the appropriate dismissal and expunction information to | ||
| enable a district court with jurisdiction to enter an order of | ||
| expunction on behalf of the defendant under Section 1a(a-1), | ||
| Article 55.02, Code of Criminal Procedure. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
