H.B. No. 2715         AN ACT   relating to the removal from office of certain officers of   political subdivisions.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 87.015(c), Local Government Code, is   amended to read as follows:          (c)  A petition for removal of an officer under this   subchapter [other than a prosecuting attorney must be addressed to   the district judge of the court in which it is filed. A petition for   removal of a prosecuting attorney] must be addressed to the   presiding judge of the administrative judicial region in which the   petition is filed. The petition must set forth the grounds alleged   for the removal of the officer in plain and intelligible language   and must cite the time and place of the occurrence of each act   alleged as a ground for removal with as much certainty as the nature   of the case permits.          SECTION 2.  Section 87.0151, Local Government Code, is   amended to read as follows:          Sec. 87.0151.  ASSIGNMENT OF JUDGE [IN CERTAIN CASES].  (a)   Immediately after a petition for removal of an officer under this   subchapter [a prosecuting attorney] is filed under Section 87.015,   the district clerk shall deliver a copy of the petition to the   presiding judge of the administrative judicial region in which the   court sits.          (b)  On receiving a petition for removal [of a prosecuting   attorney] under Subsection (a), the presiding judge of the   administrative judicial region shall assign a district court judge   of a judicial district that does not include the county in which the   petition was filed to conduct the removal proceedings.          SECTION 3.  Section 87.018(f), Local Government Code, is   amended to read as follows:          (f)  In a proceeding to remove an officer under this   subchapter [a prosecuting attorney from office], the presiding   judge of the administrative judicial region in which the petition   for removal was filed shall appoint a prosecuting attorney from   another judicial district or county, as applicable, in the   administrative judicial region to represent the state.          SECTION 4.  Sections 87.018(d) and (e), Local Government   Code, are repealed.          SECTION 5.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to   the removal of an officer under Subchapter B, Chapter 87, Local   Government Code, for which the petition for removal is filed under   that subchapter on or after the effective date of this Act. The   removal of an officer for which the petition for removal is filed   before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in   effect on the date the petition is filed, and the former law is   continued in effect for that purpose.          SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives   a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as   provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this   Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this   Act takes effect September 1, 2025.       ______________________________ ______________________________      President of the Senate Speaker of the House                   I certify that H.B. No. 2715 was passed by the House on May 6,   2025, by the following vote:  Yeas 110, Nays 37, 1 present, not   voting.     ______________________________   Chief Clerk of the House                 I certify that H.B. No. 2715 was passed by the Senate on May   25, 2025, by the following vote:  Yeas 21, Nays 10.     ______________________________   Secretary of the Senate       APPROVED:  _____________________                      Date                           _____________________                    Governor