By: Lewis (Senate Sponsor - West) H.B. No. 1875
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2013;
May 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
Jurisprudence; May 16, 2013, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 16, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a case transferred from one district court to another
district court.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 24.003, Government Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as
follows:
(b) Unless provided otherwise by the local rules of
administration, a district judge in the county may:
(1) except as provided by Subsection (b-1), transfer
any civil or criminal case or proceeding on the court's docket,
other than a case governed by Chapter 155, Family Code, to the
docket of another district court in the county;
(2) hear and determine any case or proceeding pending
in another district court in the county without having the case
transferred;
(3) sit for another district court in the county and
hear and determine any case or proceeding pending in that court;
(4) temporarily exchange benches with the judge of
another district court in the county;
(5) try different cases in the same court at the same
time; and
(6) occupy the judge's own courtroom or the courtroom
of another district court in the county.
(b-1) Notwithstanding the local rules of administration, a
district judge may not transfer any civil or criminal case or
proceeding to the docket of another district court without the
consent of the judge of the court to which it is transferred.
SECTION 2. This Act applies only to the transfer of a case
or proceeding to the docket of another district court that occurs on
or after the effective date of this Act. The transfer of a case or
proceeding that occurs before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date the case or proceeding is
transferred, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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