BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 840 By: Moody County Affairs Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE It has been noted that the process for the selection of the public members of a county salary grievance committee, which involves the random drawing of physical paper slips bearing applicable names, is antiquated and needlessly time-consuming. H.B. 840 seeks to address this issue by setting out an optional alternative process that uses a computer to generate a randomized list of applicable names. CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS H.B. 840 amends the Local Government Code to set out a process for the selection of the public members of a county salary grievance committee that a county may use as an alternative to the random drawing of paper slips. The bill, in establishing this alternative process, authorizes a county commissioners court to direct the county clerk to use a computer to generate a randomized list of the names of all persons who served on a grand jury in the county during the preceding calendar year and requires the commissioners court to take the following actions at the meeting for the selection of the public members: adopt the randomized list; enter the list into the minutes of the meeting; and select, in the order of the list, the necessary number of public members and alternates. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2021.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 840
By: Moody
County Affairs
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 840
By: Moody
County Affairs
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE It has been noted that the process for the selection of the public members of a county salary grievance committee, which involves the random drawing of physical paper slips bearing applicable names, is antiquated and needlessly time-consuming. H.B. 840 seeks to address this issue by setting out an optional alternative process that uses a computer to generate a randomized list of applicable names.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS H.B. 840 amends the Local Government Code to set out a process for the selection of the public members of a county salary grievance committee that a county may use as an alternative to the random drawing of paper slips. The bill, in establishing this alternative process, authorizes a county commissioners court to direct the county clerk to use a computer to generate a randomized list of the names of all persons who served on a grand jury in the county during the preceding calendar year and requires the commissioners court to take the following actions at the meeting for the selection of the public members: adopt the randomized list; enter the list into the minutes of the meeting; and select, in the order of the list, the necessary number of public members and alternates.
EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2021.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
It has been noted that the process for the selection of the public members of a county salary grievance committee, which involves the random drawing of physical paper slips bearing applicable names, is antiquated and needlessly time-consuming. H.B. 840 seeks to address this issue by setting out an optional alternative process that uses a computer to generate a randomized list of applicable names.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
H.B. 840 amends the Local Government Code to set out a process for the selection of the public members of a county salary grievance committee that a county may use as an alternative to the random drawing of paper slips. The bill, in establishing this alternative process, authorizes a county commissioners court to direct the county clerk to use a computer to generate a randomized list of the names of all persons who served on a grand jury in the county during the preceding calendar year and requires the commissioners court to take the following actions at the meeting for the selection of the public members:
adopt the randomized list;
enter the list into the minutes of the meeting; and
select, in the order of the list, the necessary number of public members and alternates.
EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2021.