SENATE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE: Jurisprudence
TIME & DATE: 1:30PM Or upon adjournment
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
PLACE: E1.012
CHAIR: Senator Jeff Wentworth
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To consider the following:
HB 75 Hope SP: Duncan
Relating to the selection of a jury in criminal and civil cases.
HB 201 Goodman SP: Van de Putte
Relating to the eligibility of a spouse for spousal maintenance in
a suit for dissolution of a marriage.
HB 270 Farrar SP: Zaffirini
Relating to court-ordered access to a child by the child's sibling.
HB 401 Villarreal SP: Averitt
Relating to the use of volunteer income tax assistance programs by
persons who owe delinquent child support.
HB 934 Taylor SP: Hinojosa
Relating to notice requirements in certain proceedings relating to
charitable trusts.
HB 1181 Dutton SP: Wentworth
Relating to access to criminal history record information by a
domestic relations office.
HB 1186 Hartnett SP: West, Royce
Relating to testamentary and nontestamentary transfers of property
and other benefits and to jurisdiction of courts over certain
probate matters.
HB 1310 Ritter SP: Williams
Relating to the authority of certain local dispute resolution
centers to collect a fee from persons receiving dispute resolution
services from the centers.
HB 1934 Gonzalez Toureilles SP: Gallegos
Relating to security fees for justice courts.
HB 1965 Hartnett SP: Van de Putte
Relating to the grounds for a divorce and the division of property
in a decree of divorce.
HB 1997 Keffer, Jim SP: Estes
Relating to the creation of an appellate judicial system for the
Eleventh Court of Appeals District.
HB 2120 Allen, Ray SP: Lindsay
Relating to the efficient administration and certain powers of
county government.
HB 2408 Bonnen SP: Wentworth
Relating to delivery to an employer of an order or writ for the
withholding of child support from an employee's earnings.
HB 2414 Keffer, Jim SP: Fraser
Relating to jury service in certain counties.
HB 2569 Eiland SP: Williams
Relating to the office of district attorney for the 253rd Judicial
District and to the creation of the office of district attorney for
the 344th Judicial District.
HB 2795 Hartnett SP: Averitt
Relating to certain appointments made by the governor and the chief
justice of the supreme court.
HB 3434 Hartnett SP: Wentworth
Relating to testamentary and nontestamentary transfers of property
and other benefits and the administration of those benefits.
HB 3485 Oliveira SP: Lucio
Relating to the establishment of criminal law hearing officers in
Cameron County.
HB 3519 Naishtat SP: Wentworth
Relating to the appointment of temporary justices of the peace in
certain counties.
HB 3541 Cook, Robby SP: Ogden
Relating to the powers and duties of magistrates in Brazos County.
HB 3547 Brown, Betty SP: Deuell
Relating to the creation of an additional county court at law in
Kaufman County.
HB 3570 Martinez SP: Hinojosa
Relating to the creation of an additional county court at law in
Hidalgo County.
HCR 88 Crabb SP: Duncan
Urging the Supreme Court of Texas and the Court of Criminal Appeals
of Texas, as necessary, to develop rules relating to the random
assignment to courts of appeals of cases pending or on appeal from
counties with overlapping appellate jurisdictions and relating to
determining the court of appeals precedent applicable in such
randomly assigned cases.
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