By: Burrows (Senate Sponsor - Perry) H.B. No. 3354
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2021;
May 6, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on
Jurisprudence; May 21, 2021, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 21, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the location of certain justice courts.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 292.001(d), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(d) A justice of the peace court may not be housed or
conducted in a building located outside the court's precinct except
as provided by Section 27.051(f) or 27.0515, Government Code, or
unless the justice of the peace court is situated in the county
courthouse in a county with a population of at least 305,000
[275,000] persons and the county seat of which is located in the
Llano Estacado region of this state [but no more than 285,000
persons].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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