By: Middleton S.B. No. 930
(In the Senate - Filed February 14, 2023; March 3, 2023,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 30, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1; March 30, 2023,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 930 By: Hughes
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the publication of opinions by a court.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 21, Government Code, is amended by
adding Section 21.013 to read as follows:
Sec. 21.013. PUBLICATION OF OPINIONS. The authorship of an
opinion published by a court is public information. A court shall
list the authors of any opinion published by the court.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an opinion published by a court on or after the effective date of
this Act. A court opinion published before the effective date of
this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the opinion was
published, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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