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5 Document(s) [ Subject: District courts ]
| Committee: | House Redistricting | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Redistricting, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2006 : a report to the House of Representatives, 80th Texas Legislature | |
| Subjects: | District courts | Judicial districts | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.79 R248 | |
| Session: | 79th R.S. (2005) | |
| Online version: | View report [46 pages File size: 9,613 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Consider modifications to the districts of state district courts. | |
| Committee: | House County Affairs | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report to the 72nd Texas Legislature / Committee on County Affairs. | |
| Subjects: | Amarillo, Texas | Boating | County budgets | County roads | District courts | Indigent health care | Motor fuels taxes | Parks and Wildlife, Texas Department of | Potter County | Randall County | State mandates | Tax assessor-collectors | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.71 c832 | |
| Session: | 71st R.S. (1989) | |
| Online version: | View report [25 pages File size: 758 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | To monitor all activities and to have budget oversight responsibilities for those agencies, boards and commissions as listed in Rule 3, Section 6. | |
| 2. | To study the imposition of a county gasoline tax dedicated to the construction and maintenance of county roads and bridges. | |
| 3. | To study the need for additional revenue measures for county criminal justice programs. | |
| 4. | To study the effect of the County Indigent Health Care program on the county budget. | |
| 5. | To study the effect of state mandated programs on rollback limits. | |
| 6. | To study the registration of boats and the county tax assessor-collector's role in the process. | |
| 7. | To study the possible consolidation of certain contiguous counties. | |
| Committee: | House Judicial Affairs | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report of the Judicial Affairs Committee, Texas House of Representatives, the sixty-eighth legislative session. | |
| Subjects: | Alternative dispute resolution | Appellate courts | County courts | Court congestion | District courts | Judges | Sovereign immunity | Trial courts | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.67 j897 | |
| Session: | 67th R.S. (1981) | |
| Online version: | View report [148 pages File size: 4,608 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Analyze, in cooperation with the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System, comparative needs related to court clerks, briefing attorneys, legal counselors, legal secretaries, and other specialized staff to study personnel needs of each of Texas' 14 courts of appeals. | |
| 2. | Investigate existing neighborhood dispute centers and report on their operations. | |
| 3. | Examine the current procedures used for resolutions to sue the state to determine if specific guidelines should be implemented. | |
| 4. | Study the alternative of creating a unified county courts at law system. | |
| 5. | Examine Texas' visiting judge program to determine if changes are necessary. | |
| 6. | Study methods to help equalize the caseloads of district judges in urban areas. | |
| 7. | Examine methods of reducing trial court delay. | |
| Committee: | House Intergovernmental Affairs | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | To the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 67th Legislature : report of the / Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs, Texas House of Representatives, 67th [i.e. 66th] Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | County budgets | County government | County sheriffs | Disaster relief | District attorneys | District courts | Emergency management | Extraterritorial jurisdiction | Hospital districts | Indigent health care | Judicial interpretation of legislation | Liability | Municipal utility districts | Municipalities | Natural disasters | Security guards | Sovereign immunity | State Property Tax Board | Tax Assessor Examiners, Board of | Water districts | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.66 in8 | |
| Session: | 66th R.S. (1979) | |
| Online version: | View report [78 pages File size: 2,110 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Oversight functions shall be conducted for all appropriations-related actions of those agencies assigned to this committee for appropriative purposes during the 66th Regular Session of the Legislature. The agencies include: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations Texas Assessor Examiners State Property Tax Board (School Tax Assessment Practices Board) | |
| 2. | Review the legal status and effects of validation acts. | |
| 3. | Review the status of hospital districts in Texas created by general and special law, including processes of petition, election, funding and administration. | |
| 4. | Review the particular problems encountered by hospital districts which are required to treat large numbers of indigent patients or districts which support medical schools or teaching hospitals. Make recommendations regarding funding for indigent health care and residency programs. * | |
| 5. | Review county bidding, contracting and purchasing procedures. | |
| 6. | Determine the costs to counties caused by the district judicial and administrative system of Texas. | |
| 7. | Study risk management of elected and appointed officials of local government. | |
| 8. | Study the legal relationships between utility districts and cities' extraterritorial jurisdiction when the two units overlap. | |
| 9. | Determine the status of reserve deputy sheriffs in Texas with particular attention to the question of employment and compensation for work involving private security. | |
| 10. | Evaluate the adequacy of the Texas Disaster Act of 1975 to determine if more state effort is needed to assist local governments in disaster relief, cleanup operations, and evacuation planning and machinery. | |
| Committee: | House Judiciary | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report, sixty-fifth legislative session / Committee on Judiciary, Texas House of Representatives. | |
| Subjects: | Courts | District courts | Trial courts | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.64 j898 v.2 | |
| Session: | 64th R.S. (1975) | |
| Online version: | View report [67 pages File size: 2,403 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Study the cost of the judiciary, the staffing and court facilities of trial courts, court reporters and the preparation of transcripts, and the manner in which the need for additional courts and judges can be determined. * | |
* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.
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