Tex. Gov't Code § 39.001 · Chapter 39. JUDICIAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
APPLICABILITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
This chapter applies to a person elected to or holding any of the following judicial offices:
(1) chief justice or justice of the supreme court;
(2) presiding judge or judge of the court of criminal appeals;
(3) chief justice or justice of a court of appeals;
(4) district judge, including a criminal district judge;
(5) business court judge; and
(6) judge of a statutory county court.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 716 (H.B. 2384), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2023.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 912 (H.B. 40), Sec. 58, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.39.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 74f6d1f144067dc03b7fa3ab030faee7ce6d44b9d44772e6a63f112243dce724
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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