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| Committee: | House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Appellate courts | Border issues | Court congestion | Drug courts | Family law courts | Guardianship | Juries | Operation Lone Star (Border security) | Specialty courts | Veterans courts | | |
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| Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
| Online version: | View report [49 pages File size: 3,204 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Examine current caseloads and capacity issues for courts handling matters related to the Texas-Mexico border. Evaluate the preparedness of the court system to handle increases in caseloads that may result from the border crisis response and make recommendations to ensure the continued fair and efficient administration of justice in the state in addressing any increased caseloads. (Joint charge with Committee on Juvenile Justice and Family Issues) | |
| 2. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the Committee's jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 87th Legislature. Conduct active oversight of all associated rulemaking and other governmental actions taken to ensure the intended legislative outcome of all legislation. | |
| 3. | Study potential solutions to improve the judicial efficiency of the state courts of appeals by analyzing caseloads and making appropriate recommendations. | |
| 4. | Evaluate the use and types of guardianships in Texas and the effect of guardianship on individual rights. Study the financial costs to families related to attaining and maintaining guardianship and compare costs to those associated with guardianship alternatives, such as supported decision-making. | |
| 5. | Study the operations of specialty courts. Determine whether additional specialty courts should be considered to address needs within specific populations. Review specialty court methods and best practices that have been implemented for specialty courts in other states, including their impact on judicial efficiency. | |
| 6. | Study state laws and procedures relating to jury service eligibility, including a review of existing jury exemptions, and make recommendations to ensure the privilege, right, and duty of jury service is protected and promoted. | |
| Committee: | House Juvenile Justice and Family Issues | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Border issues | Child support | Coronavirus | Court congestion | Family violence | Federal funds | Juvenile detention facilities | Juvenile Justice Department, Texas | Juvenile justice system | Operation Lone Star (Border security) | Probation | Protective orders | Unaccompanied minors | Undocumented immigrants | | |
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| Session: | 87th R.S. (2021) | |
| Online version: | View report [42 pages File size: 2,822 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Monitor the impact of children, including unaccompanied minors, crossing the Texas-Mexico border on the juvenile justice system, including gang violence. Identify any particularized services that children, including unaccompanied minors, will need and assess the costs of providing these services. | |
| 2. | Examine current caseloads and capacity issues for courts handling matters related to the Texas-Mexico border. Evaluate the preparedness of the court system to handle increases in caseloads that may result from the border crisis response and make recommendations to ensure the continued fair and efficient administration of justice in the state in addressing any increased caseloads. (Joint charge with Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence) | |
| 3. | Review the ongoing development of federal laws, rules, and regulations associated with the distribution of the federal pandemic recovery funds, including reporting requirements, and make recommendations to the House Committee on Appropriations for use of the funds to respond to the Texas-Mexico border crisis. | |
| 4. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the Committee’s jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 87th Legislature. Conduct active oversight of all associated rulemaking and other governmental actions taken to ensure the intended legislative outcome of all legislation, including the following:
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| 5. | Complete study of assigned charges related to the Texas-Mexico border issued in June 2021. | |
| 6. | Examine obstacles to the reporting of domestic violence and how these obstacles contribute to the difficulty in obtaining and enforcing a protective order. Examine new technologies that could facilitate domestic violence reporting without putting victims at risk of further violence and harm. | |
| 7. | Explore ways to modernize the juvenile justice system for youth on probation and incarcerated youth. Review statewide resource allocation, including available staffing, and identify potential geographic limitations. Investigate the best practices of smaller specialized facilities for youth committed to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department while leveraging the Department's current facilities and staff. Analyze the current gaps in county-level services and funding and make recommendations to address those gaps. | |
| 8. | Examine workforce issues at state and local juvenile correctional facilities and consider the state's incentives to recruit quality staff. Consider the geographic areas where specialty providers are concentrated and the viability of opening specialized facilities for the state's youth with the highest therapeutic need to relieve the state's current rural facilities struggling with staffing. Consider consistent investments the state can make in local probation to encourage their facilities to divert youth from the juvenile justice system. | |
| 9. | Study how child support is calculated and administered in Texas and how the Texas method compares to other states' plans for calculating child support, including identifying modern trends across the country for calculating child support. Consider how alternative methods for calculating child support affect each parents' share of responsibility for child support, health care, childcare, and other matters in other jurisdictions compared to Texas. | |
| Committee: | Senate Jurisprudence | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report to the 76th Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Appellate courts | Attorneys | Court congestion | Court costs and fees | Fines | Judicial campaign contributions | Judicial districts | Judicial Districts Board | Judicial selection | Juries | Jury duty | Redistricting | State Auditor's Office, Texas | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.75 j979 | |
| Session: | 75th R.S. (1997) | |
| Online version: | View report [90 pages File size: 4,360 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the selection of judges in the state courts as well as the statutory county courts-at-law and probate courts, and make recommendations for any legislative action. The committee should consider the report made to the 75th Legislature by the Texas Commission on Judicial Efficiency and legislation introduced during the 75th Legislature. | |
| 2. | Study and evaluate the process of judicial districting with emphasis on the intermediate level of courts in Texas and, if necessary, make recommendations for any legislative action. | |
| 3. | Review any reports made by the Texas State Auditor regarding the court system and efficiency of the courts which may be issued prior to the 76th Legislature, and consider whether legislative action is needed. | |
| 4. | Study the costs assessed on parties filing civil lawsuits and appeals in district, county and appellate courts and evaluate whether those costs are unreasonable or overly burdensome. The Committee should review relevant legislation introduced during the 1997 regular session. | |
| 5. | Evaluate the collection efforts of criminal fines imposed by the courts to determine how courts, court clerks, community supervision departments, the Division of Paroles in the Department of Criminal Justice, and the Board of Pardons and Paroles may enhance collection efforts. If improvement in collection efforts is needed, the Committee should make recommendations. A review of other states' methods may be conducted. | |
| 6. | Review ways to improve service on juries and service by jurors. The committee should consider the work of the task force created by the Texas Supreme Court to study the jury system in Texas, as well as review the results of any similar studies which have taken place or are presently taking place in other states. | |
| 7. | Review the legal duties of attorneys and guardians in the negotiation and settlement of their client's civil claims. The Committee should consider whether current law and regulations ensure that clients' interests are protected and promote the efficient and effective resolution of claims. The Committee may make recommendations, if necessary, for legislative action. | |
| Committee: | House Judiciary | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report of the Committee on Judiciary, House of Representatives, State of Texas, 69th Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Administrative Hearings, State Office of | Alternative dispute resolution | Court congestion | Court Reporters Certification Board, Texas | Divorce | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.69 j898 | |
| Session: | 69th R.S. (1985) | |
| Online version: | View report [101 pages File size: 3,277 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | To study the funding procedures and processes of the Court Reporters Certification Board, and review the qualifications necessary for certification. | |
| 2. | To study the necessity and desirability of establishing or expanding a system of arbitration or mediation for certain civil cases. | |
| 3. | To study the necessity and desirability of allowing court ordered alimony in Texas, and the determination of those parameters of circumstances which would indicate a need for spousal maintenance. | |
| 4. | To study the advantages and disadvantages to the state of creating a central panel of administrative law judges. | |
| 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 Judicial Affairs | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report of the Judicial Affairs Committee, Texas House of Representatives, the sixty-seventh legislative session. | |
| Subjects: | Appellate courts | Autopsies | Court congestion | Courts | Judicial Conduct, State Commission on | Law Examiners, Texas Board of | Medical examiners | State Bar of Texas | Statutory revision | Supreme Court, Texas | Trial courts | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.66 j897 | |
| Session: | 66th R.S. (1979) | |
| Online version: | View report [127 pages File size: 4,782 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Oversight functions shall be conducted for all appropriations-related actions of those agencies assigned for appropriative purposes during the Sixty-sixth Regular Session of the Legislature. These are: Supreme Court of Texas, Courts of Civil Appeals, State Bar of Texas, Board of Law Examiners, State Commission on Judicial Conduct, Judiciary Section, Comptroller's Office. | |
| 2. | Study the use of masters and other parajudicial personnel as a method of easing caseloads in certain courts. | |
| 3. | Identify concurrent jurisdiction in civil cases among the trial courts in Texas and make appropriate recommendations. | |
| 4. | Review court systems in other states. | |
| 5. | Undertake a comprehensive study of the Family Code with recommendations as to recodification. | |
| 6. | Study the need and benefits of having regional medical examiners in determining deaths caused by sexual abuse, child abuse, drugs and alcohol. | |
| 7. | Study the needs of the Courts of Civil Appeals. | |
| 8. | Determine the support services needed by the Supreme Court and recommend appropriate funding. | |
| Committee: | House Judiciary | |
| Title: | Interim Report - Volume 2 | |
| Library Catalog Title: | To the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 67th Legislature : reports of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, state of Texas, 66th Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Appellate courts | Court congestion | Criminal appeals | Trial courts | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.66 j898 2 | |
| Session: | 66th R.S. (1979) | |
| Online version: | View report [157 pages File size: 4,527 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study means of streamlining and making more efficient the administration of justice at the trial court level. | |
| 2. | Study the need for implementing legislation relating to changing the Courts of Civil Appeals to "Courts of Appeals" with criminal jurisdiction (SJR 36, 66th R.S.). | |
| Committee: | Senate Jurisprudence | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report to the Senate Committee on Jursiprudence. | |
| Subjects: | Child support | Consumer credit and debt | Court congestion | Interest rates | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.66 j979s | |
| Session: | 66th R.S. (1979) | |
| Online version: | View report [135 pages File size: 3,956 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Review preferential setting clauses which allow particular kinds of lawsuits or causes of action to take precedence over all other lawsuits pending on a court's docket at the time the lawsuit is filed. Study the problems which these clauses create, and propose solutions. * | |
| 2. | Review state interest rate regulation and usury laws, and study the nature and extent of Federal intervention in regulating the availability and cost of credit. * | |
| 3. | Research problems with enforcing child support orders; make recommendations for improving the enforcement process. * | |
| Committee: | House Judiciary | |
| Title: | Interim Report - Arbitration and Overcrowded Courts | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report : arbitration and overcrowded courts / Committee on the Judiciary, Sixty-sixth Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Alternative dispute resolution | Court congestion | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.65 j898a | |
| Session: | 65th R.S. (1977) | |
| Online version: | View report [23 pages File size: 694 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | A study of the use and desirability of arbitration as a possible remedy to overloaded court dockets in Texas. | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | House Judiciary | |
| Title: | Transcript, Testimony of Judge L.D. Ratliff, July 20, 1970 | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1801.9 J898MR 61 | |
| Session: | 61st R.S. (1969) | |
| Online version: | View document [37 pages File size: 1,908 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Judiciary | |
| Title: | Transcript, Testimony by Curtis Brown, August 14, 1970 | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1801.9 J898MB 61 | |
| Session: | 61st R.S. (1969) | |
| Online version: | View document [18 pages File size: 960 kb] | |
| Committee: | Joint Judicial Redistricting Committee | |
| Title: | Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Report of Judicial Redistricting Committee as provided for in Senate Concurrent Resolution no. 13. | |
| Subjects: | Court congestion | Judicial districts | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.42, J898 | |
| Session: | 42nd R.S. (1931) | |
| Online version: | View report [20 pages] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Make a thorough investigation into the various Judicial Districts and district courts of Texas for the purpose of determining as nearly as possible the amount of litigation being transacted by each and every district court in Texas. | |
| 2. | Make recommendations for redistricting the state for district court purposes. * | |
* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.
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