By: Bettencourt, Birdwell S.B. No. 987
(In the Senate - Filed January 29, 2025; February 13, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
March 17, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
Nays 0; March 17, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the subject matter jurisdiction of the criminal trial
courts of this state over certain criminal actions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 571.171, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) This section does not require the exhaustion of civil,
including administrative, remedies as a prerequisite to the vesting
in a trial court of subject matter jurisdiction over a criminal
action for which the trial court would otherwise have jurisdiction
under other law.
SECTION 2. This Act applies to a criminal action commenced
before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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