By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 306
(In the Senate - Filed January 15, 2015; February 2, 2015,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 16, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; March 16, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the information included in the annual report of the
State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 33.005(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) The report must include:
(1) an explanation of the role of the commission;
(2) annual statistical information for the preceding
fiscal year, including:
(A) the number of complaints received by the
commission alleging judicial misconduct or disability;
(B) the number of complaints dismissed without
commission action other than investigation because the evidence did
not support the allegation or appearance of judicial misconduct or
disability;
(C) the number of complaints dismissed without
commission action other than investigation because the facts
alleged did not constitute judicial misconduct or disability;
(D) the number of complaints dismissed without
commission action other than investigation because the allegation
or appearance of judicial misconduct or disability was determined
to be unfounded or frivolous;
(E) the number of each type of judicial
misconduct or disability that resulted in sanction or censure of a
judge; and
(F) examples of improper judicial conduct;
(3) an explanation of the commission's processes; and
(4) changes the commission considers necessary in its
rules or the applicable statutes or constitutional provisions.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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