1-1 By: Leedom S.B. No. 282
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 8, 1993; February 9, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; March 17, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0;
1-6 March 17, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Armbrister x
1-10 Leedom x
1-11 Carriker x
1-12 Henderson x
1-13 Madla x
1-14 Moncrief x
1-15 Patterson x
1-16 Rosson x
1-17 Shapiro x
1-18 Wentworth x
1-19 Whitmire x
1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 282 By: Leedom
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the fees for services rendered by justices of the
1-24 peace.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Section 118.121, Local Government Code, is
1-27 amended to read as follows:
1-28 Sec. 118.121. FEE SCHEDULE. A justice of the peace shall
1-29 collect the following fees for services rendered to any person:
1-30 (1) Services rendered before judgment (Sec. 118.122):
1-31 (A) Justice court................$20.00 <$15.00>
1-32 (B) Small claims court....................$10.00
1-33 (2) Services Rendered after judgment (Sec. 118.123):
1-34 (A) Transcript............................$10.00
1-35 (B) Abstract of judgment......................$5
1-36 (C) Execution, order of sale, writ of
1-37 restitution, or other writ or
1-38 process.........................$5 per page
1-39 Issuing other document (no return
1-40 required)..................... copy charge
1-41 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
1-42 applies only to fees that become payable on or after that date. A
1-43 fee that became payable before the effective date of this Act is
1-44 governed by the law in effect when the fee became payable, and that
1-45 law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-46 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-47 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-48 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-49 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-50 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-51 * * * * *
1-52 Austin,
1-53 Texas
1-54 March 17, 1993
1-55 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-56 President of the Senate
1-57 Sir:
1-58 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
1-59 referred S.B. No. 282, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-60 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-61 recommendation that it do not pass, but that the Committee
1-62 Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do pass and be printed.
1-63 Armbrister,
1-64 Chairman
1-65 * * * * *
1-66 WITNESSES
1-67 FOR AGAINST ON
1-68 ___________________________________________________________________
2-1 Name: Craig Pardue x
2-2 Representing: Dallas County
2-3 City: Dallas
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2-5 Name: G. K. Maenius x
2-6 Representing: Tarrant Co. Commissioners Ct.
2-7 City: Fort Worth
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