84R3436 CAE-F
By: Rodriguez of Bexar H.B. No. 2369
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the county courts at law in Bexar County.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 25.0172(c), (c-1), (j), (v), and (w),
Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
(c) Any of the county courts at law may hear [The County
Courts at Law Nos. 4, 6, 11, and 12 shall give preference to]
criminal cases and appeals de novo from the municipal and justice
courts.
(c-1) The County Courts [Court] at Law Nos. 7 and [No.] 13 of
Bexar County, Texas, shall give preference to cases prosecuted
under:
(1) Section 22.01, Penal Code, in which the victim is a
person whose relationship to or association with the defendant is
described by Chapter 71, Family Code; and
(2) Section 25.07 or 25.072, Penal Code.
(j) The judge of a county court at law shall be paid as
provided by Section 25.0005 [an annual salary in an amount not less
than $25,000 and not more than the total annual salary, including
supplements, paid a district judge in the county]. The
compensation shall be paid out of the county's general fund or
officers' salary fund. [The commissioners court shall consider the
financial condition of the county and the duties and needs of the
county court at law judges in setting the salaries of the judges.]
Before raising a salary the commissioners court must publish notice
containing information of the salaries affected and the amount of
the proposed raise in a newspaper of general circulation in the
county. The commissioners court may raise the salaries of the
county court at law judges only after 10 days' notice and only at a
regular meeting of the commissioners court.
(v) Section 25.0006 [25.0006(a)] does not apply to a county
court at law in [County Courts at Law Nos. 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, and 15 of] Bexar County. [Section 25.0006(b) does not apply
to County Courts at Law Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,
and 15 of Bexar County.]
(w) This section does not apply to the statutory probate
courts [County Court at Law No. 1 and Probate Court].
SECTION 2. Sections 25.0172(a), (b), and (i), Government
Code, are repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.