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General Order Regarding Procedures for Review of Bail Decisions — Fort Bend County. The operative requirements are quoted verbatim from the governing document (registered/posted 09/19/2025); the document in custody is the controlling text.
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[Stamp: COPY] [File stamp: FILED, SEP 19 2025, AT 1:26 [handwritten] P [handwritten] M., CLERK DISTRICT COURT, FORT BEND CO., TX, with the clerk's signature and deputy initials] IN RE: IN THE DISTRICT COURTS OF FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS GENERAL ORDER REGARDING PROCEDURES FOR REVIEW OF BAIL DECISION PURSUANT TO TEX. C.C.P. ARTICLE 17.029(b) The Fort Bend County local administrative judge hereby orders the following procedure to be applied to a bail decision regarding a defendant charged with or arrested for an offense punishable as a felony, and that was made under Article 17.028 by the magistrate of a court that does not have jurisdiction to try the offense for which the defendant is charged. This Order is intended: 1. To comply with Article 17.029 Tex. C.C.P., as amended, to establish a procedure for the district clerk to notify each district judge that the district clerk received a request to review a bail decision; 2. To ensure that a bail decision is reviewed as soon as practical but no later than the next business day after District Attorney files a request to review a bail decision; and 3. To ensure constitutional due process for defendants whose bail amount or bail conditions are modified. OVERVIEW OF REQUIRED PERSONNEL AND PROCEDURES The District Attorney's Office and the District Clerk's Office will work together to process and schedule timely disposition of bail reviews. District Attorney's Office The role of the counsel from the District Attorney's Office is to efile a "Motion for Review of Bail Decision" or similar request, together with a proposed Order to DENY or to GRANT bail modification or modification of bond conditions. District Clerk's Office The role of the District Clerk's Office is to forward the "Motion for Review of Bail Decision" and proposed Order to the appropriate District Court Judge or Designee queue immediately upon receipt. GENERAL PROVISIONS 1. A district judge must review a bail decision as soon as practicable but not later than the next business day after the date a "Motion for Review of Bail Decision" and proposed Order has been filed with the District Clerk's Office. 2. A district judge shall comply with Article 17.09 and shall consider the facts presented and the rules established by Article 17.15(a) in setting the defendant's bail or determining bond conditions. 3. Upon review of the State's motion the district judge may either elect to modify the bond or bond conditions or to deny the motion. 4. If the district judge elects to modify a bail decision to increase the amount of bail or to require additional conditions of bond for a defendant who is not in custody, the judge shall: a. Issue a summons for the defendant to appear before the judge; and b. Give the defendant a reasonable opportunity to appear before issuing a warrant for the defendant's arrest. c. Notice the State's attorney and the Defendant's Attorney of Record. IT IS SO ORDERED THIS 19 [handwritten] day of SEPTEMBER 2025. [signature] Honorable Christian Becerra, Presiding Judge, 434th Judicial District Court, Local Administrative District Judge [Running footer: 1 / 2]
[Stamp: COPY] [File stamp: FILED, SEP 19 2025, AT 1:26 [handwritten] P [handwritten] M., CLERK DISTRICT COURT, FORT BEND CO., TX, with the clerk's signature and deputy initials] IN RE: IN THE DISTRICT COURTS OF FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS GENERAL ORDER REGARDING PROCEDURES FOR REVIEW OF BAIL DECISION PURSUANT TO TEX. C.C.P. ARTICLE 17.029(b) The Fort Bend County local administrative judge hereby order
Reviewer note: Operative provisions transcribed verbatim by vision-read of the registered scanned document (rasterized at 170 dpi and read page-by-page this session); the registered document (sha256 8e58ee6389eb…) is the controlling text. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 8e58ee6389eb..., 2 page(s), image-only scan; the OCR layer used as a typing base and corrected word by word from the page) read against the rendered file; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]
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