86R2893 CAE-D
By: Canales H.B. No. 549
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an objection to the judge assigned in a criminal case.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 74.053(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) If a party to a civil or criminal case files a timely
objection to the assignment, the judge shall not hear the case.
Except as provided by Subsection (d), each party to the case is only
entitled to one objection under this section for that case.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to the right to object to the assignment of a judge assigned under
Chapter 74, Government Code, on or after the effective date of this
Act. An objection to the assignment of a judge assigned under
Chapter 74, Government Code, before the effective date of this Act
is governed by the law in effect on the date of assignment, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.