By: Seliger S.B. No. 633
(In the Senate - Filed February 2, 2009; February 23, 2009,
read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
March 9, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; March 9, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the number of counties or municipalities necessary to
establish a regional drug court program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 469.0025, Health and
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) The commissioners courts of two [three] or more
counties, or the governing bodies of two [three] or more
municipalities, may elect to establish a regional drug court
program under this chapter for the participating counties or
municipalities.
SECTION 2. 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, 2009.
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