Bill Text: TX HB93 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft
Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of a magistrate's name on certain signed orders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2019-06-15 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB93 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB93-Introduced.html
  86R1058 JCG-D
 
  By: Canales H.B. No. 93
 
 
 
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, the 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, 2019.
feedback