85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1893, Chapter 954 Page: 3 of 9
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S.B. No. 1893
1 judicial regions.
2 SECTION 4. (a) The Tenth and Eleventh Administrative
3 Judicial Regions are created on September 1, 2017.
4 (b) On September 1, 2017, the governor, with the advice and
5 consent of the senate, shall appoint judges to serve as presiding
6 judges in the Tenth and Eleventh Administrative Judicial Regions
7 and any administrative judicial region in which a vacancy in office
8 occurs because the presiding judge of a judicial region is no longer
9 qualified to serve as the presiding judge of the region because of
10 the composition of the region on that date.
11 (c) On September 1, 2017, the county in which a presiding
12 judge appointed under Subsection (b) of this section resides shall
13 provide adequate quarters for the operation of the applicable
14 administrative judicial region.
15 (d) Not later than September 1, 2017, the regional presiding
16 judges of the First through Ninth Administrative Judicial Regions:
17 (1) shall develop and adopt by majority vote budgets
18 for the Tenth and Eleventh Administrative Judicial Regions that
19 include an assessment for each county included in the area that will
20 comprise the new regions; and
21 (2) may by majority vote transfer money, as necessary,
22 from the existing judicial regions to the Tenth and Eleventh
23 Administrative Judicial Regions.
24 (e) A judge or associate judge or coordinator assigned or
25 appointed to a court in a county included in the First, Second,
26 Third, Tenth, or Eleventh Administrative Judicial Region on
27 September 1, 2017, continues to serve in that position until3
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Texas. Legislature. Senate. 85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1893, Chapter 954, legislative document, June 15, 2017; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1050531/m1/3/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.