Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 1220 amends the Government Code to create a county contributions fund in the county treasury of each county that collects a $40 filing fee for every probate, guardianship, mental health, or civil case filed in the county's statutory probate court, and it requires the state to deposit into each county's fund an annual contribution of $40,000 plus its share of any excess fee revenue collected by the courts and paid to the state. The bill prohibits a county from reducing the amount of funds provided for the support of the statutory probate courts in the county because of the availability of funds in the county's contributions fund.