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Committee:	House Judicial Affairs
Title:	Interim Report
Library Catalog Title:	Interim report of the Judicial Affairs Committee, Texas House of Representatives, the sixty-seventh legislative session.
Subjects:	Appellate courts | Autopsies | Court congestion | Courts | Judicial Conduct, State Commission on | Law Examiners, Texas Board of | Medical examiners | State Bar of Texas | Statutory revision | Supreme Court, Texas | Trial courts |
Library Call Number:	L1836.66 j897
Session:	66th R.S. (1979)
Online version:	View report [127 pages  File size: 4,782 kb]
Charges:	This report should address the charges below.
1.	Oversight functions shall be conducted for all appropriations-related actions of those agencies assigned for appropriative purposes during the Sixty-sixth Regular Session of the Legislature. These are: Supreme Court of Texas, Courts of Civil Appeals, State Bar of Texas, Board of Law Examiners, State Commission on Judicial Conduct, Judiciary Section, Comptroller's Office.
2.	Study the use of masters and other parajudicial personnel as a method of easing caseloads in certain courts.
3.	Identify concurrent jurisdiction in civil cases among the trial courts in Texas and make appropriate recommendations.
4.	Review court systems in other states.
5.	Undertake a comprehensive study of the Family Code with recommendations as to recodification.
6.	Study the need and benefits of having regional medical examiners in determining deaths caused by sexual abuse, child abuse, drugs and alcohol.
7.	Study the needs of the Courts of Civil Appeals.
8.	Determine the support services needed by the Supreme Court and recommend appropriate funding.

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