Quantcast

West DFW News

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Key details on HB 4797 presented by Keresa Richardson in Texas House

Webp hj4q1tou3oh80asn7iw3aiikkxx7

Keresa Johnson Richardson, Texas State Representative of the 61st district (R) | https://www.facebook.com/keresa.richardson.16

Keresa Johnson Richardson, Texas State Representative of the 61st district (R) | https://www.facebook.com/keresa.richardson.16

Rep. Keresa Richardson introduced HB 4797, a bill on Courts, to the Texas House on Thursday, April 3 during the 89(R) legislative session, according to the Texas Legislature website.

More specifically, the official text was summarized by the state legislature as ’’Relating to the reorganization of the court of appeals districts’’.

The following is our breakdown, based on the actual bill text, and may include interpretation to clarify its provisions.

The bill reorganizes the Court of Appeals districts in Texas by consolidating the current system into six districts, each with designated counties and principal cities where the courts will be held. District A will encompass Houston and Beaumont, District B will include Fort Worth and Waco, District C will consist of Austin, Amarillo, and Eastland, District D will involve San Antonio, Corpus Christi, and El Paso, and District E will cover Dallas, Texarkana, and Tyler. Each district will have a chief justice and a set number of justices. The bill also reassigns current court personnel to new roles within the restructured districts and addresses the transfer of jurisdictions, ensuring that cases filed before the effective date are not affected. The Texas Supreme Court is empowered to adopt rules to implement these changes. The act becomes effective on Sept. 1, 2025.

Keresa Richardson, member of the House Committee on S/C on International Relations, proposed another 11 bills during the 89(R) legislative session.

Richardson graduated from Texas A & M University in 1979.

Keresa Richardson is currently serving in the Texas State House, representing the state's 61st House district. She replaced previous state representative Frederick Frazier in 2025.

Bills in Texas go through a multi-step legislative process, including committee review, debates, and votes in both chambers before reaching a final decision. Each session, there are typically thousands of bills introduced, but only a portion successfully navigate the process to become law.

You can read more about the bills and other measures here.

Other Recent Bills Introduced by Rep. Keresa Richardson in Texas House During 89(R) Legislative Session

Bill NumberDate IntroducedShort Description
HB 480004/03/2025Relating to the provision of certain electricity services
HB 420003/31/2025Relating to requiring certain disclosures in relation to the purchase of electronic media by consumers; providing a civil penalty
HB 419803/31/2025Relating to the standards for a school district's library collection development policies; providing a civil penalty
HB 397803/27/2025Relating to municipal authority to annex certain areas by petition
HB 397503/27/2025Relating to authorizing a credit union to act as a school district depository
HB 397403/27/2025Relating to a toll-free telephone hotline established by the Texas Department of Transportation for reporting dangerous road conditions
HB 397303/27/2025Relating to prohibiting a fee for a parent-taught driver education provider license
HB 397203/27/2025Relating to including fetal development instruction as part of the required health curriculum for public school students in certain grade levels
HB 376003/26/2025Relating to an exemption from sales and use taxes for certain materials used in trapping feral hogs
HB 358503/25/2025Relating to the employment policies of and criminal history record information obtained by mental hospitals and mental health facilities and the prohibited employment of certain applicants based on criminal history record information
HB 305803/20/2025Relating to the admission of persons holding certain nonimmigrant visas to public institutions of higher education

ORGANIZATIONS IN THIS STORY

!RECEIVE ALERTS

The next time we write about any of these orgs, we’ll email you a link to the story. You may edit your settings or unsubscribe at any time.
Sign-up

DONATE

Help support the Metric Media Foundation's mission to restore community based news.
Donate

MORE NEWS