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


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
 
 
  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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