Tex. Gov't Code § 27.005 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) For purposes of removal under Chapter 87, Local Government Code, "incompetency" in the case of a justice of the peace includes the failure of the justice to successfully complete:
(1) within one year after the date the justice is first elected:
(A) an 80-hour course in the performance of the justice's duties; and
(B) the course described by Article 17.024(a)(1), Code of Criminal Procedure;
(2) each following year, a 20-hour course in the performance of the justice's duties, including not less than 10 hours of instruction regarding substantive, procedural, and evidentiary law in civil matters; and
(3) each following state fiscal biennium, the course described by Article 17.024(a)(2), Code of Criminal Procedure.
(b) The courses may be completed in an accredited state-supported school of higher education.
(c) A course described by Subsection (a)(1)(A) may include a course described by Subsection (a)(1)(B).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 480, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985. Amended by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 802, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989; Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 147, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 3 (H.B. 79), Sec. 5.01(a), eff. January 1, 2012.
Acts 2021, 87th Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 11 (S.B. 6), Sec. 15, eff. January 1, 2022.
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Code of Criminal Procedure
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