By:  Montford                                   S.R. No. 1147
                                   SENATE RESOLUTION
    1-1        BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, That Rule
    1-2  12.03, Rules of the Senate, 73rd Legislature, is suspended, as
    1-3  provided by Senate Rule 12.08, to the extent described in this
    1-4  resolution, to enable the conference committee appointed to adjust
    1-5  the differences between the House and Senate versions of S.B. No.
    1-6  947, relating to continuing legal education, technical assistance,
    1-7  and other support programs for prosecuting attorneys and their
    1-8  personnel, for criminal defense attorneys who regularly represent
    1-9  indigent defendants, and for justices of the peace and their court
   1-10  personnel, to successfully conclude the committee's deliberations,
   1-11  by authorizing the conferees to consider and take action on the
   1-12  following specific matters:
   1-13        (1)  Senate Rule 12.03(1) is suspended to permit the
   1-14  committee to amend the SECTION of the House third reading amendment
   1-15  to the bill adding Section 56.006, Government Code, to read as
   1-16  follows:
   1-17        "SECTION _____.  Chapter 56, Government Code, is amended by
   1-18  adding Section 56.007 to read as follows:
   1-19        "Sec. 56.007.  ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.  An entity receiving
   1-20  a grant of funds from the Court of Criminal Appeals under this
   1-21  chapter for continuing legal education, technical assistance, and
   1-22  other support programs may not use grant funds to pay any costs of
   1-23  the entity not related to approved grant activities."
    2-1        This action is necessary to make a technical correction to
    2-2  and clarify the legislative intent of House 3rd Reading Amendment
    2-3  No. 1.
    2-4        (2)  Senate Rule 12.03(3) is suspended to permit the
    2-5  committee to add the following appropriately numbered SECTION to
    2-6  the bill to read as follows:
    2-7        "SECTION _____.
    2-8  "1.   All funds appropriated to the Supreme Court of Texas in
    2-9  Senate Bill 5, Acts of the Seventy-third Legislature, Regular
   2-10  Session, in line item 2., Judicial and Court Personnel Training,
   2-11  and on page IV-17 in rider provision 5., Appropriation, Judicial
   2-12  Education, are hereby transferred to the Court of Criminal Appeals
   2-13  for the same period and for the same purposes as indicated in that
   2-14  Act.
   2-15  "2.   All rider provisions in Article IV, Senate Bill 5,
   2-16  Seventy-third Legislature, Regular Session, limiting, controlling,
   2-17  or otherwise affecting the appropriations transferred pursuant to
   2-18  subsection 1 of this section shall continue to apply to said
   2-19  appropriations and a reference therein to the Supreme Court of
   2-20  Texas shall be deemed a reference to the Court of Criminal Appeals.
   2-21  "3.   Section 5., Contingency Appropriation, Judicial Education, at
   2-22  page IV-28 in the Special Provisions - Judiciary of Senate Bill 5,
   2-23  Acts of the Seventy-third Legislature, Regular Session, shall have
   2-24  no effect."
   2-25        This action is necessary to incorporate a provision needed to
    3-1  transfer certain appropriations, which provision was intended to be
    3-2  added as a rider to the General Appropriations Act.
    3-3                                 _____________________________________
    3-4                                        President of the Senate
    3-5                                      I hereby certify that the
    3-6                                 above Resolution was adopted by
    3-7                                 the Senate on May 28, 1993.
    3-8                                 _____________________________________
    3-9                                        Secretary of the Senate