By Solomons, et al. H.B. No. 1878
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1878:
By Tillery C.S.H.B. No. 1878
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the collection of fee for jury trial.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 51.064, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 51.064. JURY FEE <IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) This
1-7 section applies only to counties with a population of two million
1-8 or more.>
1-9 (a) <(b)> The district clerk shall collect a $20 jury fee
1-10 for each civil case in district court in which a person applies for
1-11 a jury trial. The clerk of a county court or statutory county
1-12 court shall collect a $17 jury fee for each civil case in those
1-13 courts in which a person applies for a jury trial. The clerk shall
1-14 note the payment of the fee on the court's docket sheet.
1-15 (b) <(c)> The fee required by this section must be paid by
1-16 the person applying for a jury trial no later than the 10th day
1-17 before the jury trial is scheduled to begin.
1-18 (c) <(d)> The fee required by this section is in addition to
1-19 the jury fee required by Rule 216, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure,
1-20 and any other fee allowed by law or rule.
1-21 (d) This section does not apply to a party that has filed an
1-22 affidavit of inability to pay under Rule 145, Texas Rules of Civil
1-23 Procedure.
1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
2-1 applies only to an action that is commenced on or after that date.
2-2 An action that is commenced before the effective date of this Act
2-3 is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the
2-4 effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for
2-5 that purpose.
2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.