| 1 | | - | By: Cortez (Senate Sponsor - Menéndez) H.B. No. 1685 |
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| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2021; |
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| 3 | | - | May 10, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 4 | | - | Jurisprudence; May 21, 2021, reported favorably by the following |
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| 5 | | - | vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 21, 2021, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 1 | + | 87R16936 TSS-F |
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| 2 | + | By: Cortez H.B. No. 1685 |
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| 9 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 10 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 7 | | relating to the use of an electronic recording device to report |
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| 12 | 8 | | proceedings before a municipal court of record for the City of San |
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| 13 | 9 | | Antonio. |
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| 14 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 15 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Section 30.00226, Government Code, is amended by |
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| 16 | 12 | | adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: |
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| 17 | 13 | | (c) Instead of using a court reporter to preserve a record |
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| 18 | 14 | | in a case, the governing body may authorize the use of a good |
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| 19 | 15 | | quality electronic recording device to report court proceedings. If |
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| 20 | 16 | | the governing body authorizes an electronic recording, the court |
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| 21 | 17 | | reporter is not required to be present to certify the reporter's |
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| 22 | 18 | | record. The recording shall be kept for the 20-day period beginning |
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| 23 | 19 | | the day after the last day of the court proceeding, trial, or denial |
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| 24 | 20 | | of motion for new trial, whichever occurs last. If a case is |
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| 25 | 21 | | appealed, the proceedings shall be transcribed from the recording |
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| 26 | 22 | | by an official court reporter. |
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| 27 | 23 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |
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