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The 2026 handbook of Brazoria County's drug-court program (S.T.E.P.): participation requirements, phase structure (Phase 1 acute stabilization minimum 60 days), drug-testing compliance, and termination consequences. Posted on both the district-courts and county-courts-at-law trees.
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"As a participant in the program, you will be required to be open, honest and truthful. You must follow the instructions given in court by the Judge, follow all of the Terms and Conditions of Community Supervision (Probation), and comply with the treatment plan developed for you." … "Phase 1 begins the day you are accepted and court-ordered into the Drug Court Program, and lasts a minimum of sixty (60) days." During Phase 1 the participant must: "Report to your Supervision Officer once per week or as directed. Appear in Drug Court once per week or as directed. Comply with the random drug testing policy. Participate in recommended alcohol/drug treatment. Complete mental health screening, if recommended and attend recommended follow-up services and/or treatment. Attend peer support meetings and/or other self-help activities a minimum of two (2) times per week. Obtain a verifiable sponsor/mentor within two weeks of admission into Drug Court and provide a sponsor verification form." … "IF YOU ARE NOT HONEST AND TRUTHFUL, IF YOU MISS APPOINTMENTS, IGNORE OTHER REQUIREMENTS, OR FAIL TO STAY AWAY FROM DRUG AND ALCOHOL USE, YOUR TIME IN THE PROGRAM COULD BE LONGER, OR YOU COULD BE TERMINATED FROM DRUG COURT. TERMINATION COULD RESULT IN YOUR COMMUNITY SUPERVISION BEING REVOKED AND THE JUDGE SENTENCING YOU TO THE COUNTY JAIL, STATE JAIL OR PRISON." Prior edition (March 2025) is retained in custody as a superseded record.
Division XI: information forms for data processing (Rule 11.2); required action - action taken on all calendared cases and a future date always set (Rule 11.19); and pro tem judges - an attorney named as a plaintiff in a civil or small claims case may not sit as a judge pro-tem during the case or within six months following its resolution, nor one named as a defendant in two or more such cases (Rule 11.22). Rules 11.1, 11.3 to 11.5, 11.7 to 11.18, 11.20 and 11.21 are repealed, and Rule 11.6 (voluntary arbitration; see Local Rule 10.2) was repealed and renumbered.
Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.