By: Hartnett H.B. No. 705
73R2928 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the use of certain fees for the support of probate
1-3 courts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 118.064(b), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The fee shall be deposited in the general fund of the
1-8 county to be used for:
1-9 (1) the continuing education of the judge and staff of
1-10 the probate courts, including the payment of travel and related
1-11 expenses in attending a continuing judicial education activity of
1-12 an organization accredited by the supreme court for continuing
1-13 judicial education; <or>
1-14 (2) the contribution of the county to fund the
1-15 compensation required by Section 25.0022, Government Code <Chapter
1-16 781, Acts of the 68th Legislature, Regular Session, 1983 (Article
1-17 1969b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)>, for the presiding judge of
1-18 the statutory probate courts;
1-19 (3) providing staff for the probate courts; or
1-20 (4) other court-related purposes for the support of
1-21 the probate courts.
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.