The Texas House approved a bill that creates a unique and complicated venue rule—a rule that would enable a state leader charged with public corruption to have his trial in his hometown county rather than where the offense occurred.
Offenses by state leaders often occur in Austin because it’s the state government’s headquarters. The public integrity unit of the Travis County District Attorney’s Office prosecutes those crimes. Under House Bill 1690, the unit would lose responsibility for public officials’ cases, but it would still prosecute state employees for corruption and would keep statewide venue to prosecute insurance fraud and motor fuels tax fraud.
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