Texas Government Code Title 2, Chapter 23 - General Provisions For Trial Courts

SUBCHAPTER A JURISDICTION

SUBCHAPTER B PRIORITY IN SETTING HEARINGS AND TRIALS

• Texas Section 23.001 - Juvenile Jurisdiction
  Each district court, county court, and statutory county court exercising any of the constitutional jurisdiction of either a county court or a district court has...
• Texas Section 23.101 - Primary Priorities
  (a) The trial courts of this state shall regularly and frequently set hearings and trials of pending matters, giving preference to hearings and trials of...
• Texas Section 23.102 - Secondary Priorities
  A matter not included in Section 23.101 shall be set at the discretion of the trial court in which the matter is pending, observing the...

SUBCHAPTER C UNIFORM JURY HANDBOOK

• Texas Section 23.103 - Effect On Other Laws
  Sections 23.101 and 23.102 do not affect a statute directing a specific court to give preference to cases involving that court's criminal jurisdiction, family law...
• Texas Section 23.201 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "state bar" means the State Bar of Texas. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 833, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1994.
• Texas Section 23.202 - Uniform Jury Handbook; Contents
  (a) The state bar shall publish a uniform jury handbook that: (1) informs jurors in lay terminology of the duties and responsibilities of a juror;...
• Texas Section 23.203 - Distribution Of Handbook
  (a) The state bar shall distribute copies of the uniform jury handbook to each trial court of this state in sufficient numbers to meet the...
• Texas Section 23.204 - Conflict With Instruction Or Charge
  If a provision of the uniform jury handbook is in conflict with an instruction or charge of a trial judge in a case, the instruction...

Last modified: September 28, 2016