By Thompson                                           H.B. No. 2673
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the imposition and collection of additional court costs
    1-3  in certain counties.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 25.0016(c), Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  In determining the amount deposited in the judicial fund
    1-8  under Section 51.702 for a county that collects fees and costs as
    1-9  provided by that section, the comptroller shall credit <one-half>
   1-10  $25 of <the fees> each fee deposited in the judicial fund under
   1-11  Section 51.701 by that county for cases assigned to a statutory
   1-12  county court as fees deposited under Section 51.702.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  Section 51.702(a), Government Code, is amended to
   1-14  read as follows:
   1-15        (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (g), in addition to all
   1-16  other fees authorized or required by other law, the clerk of a
   1-17  statutory county court shall collect a $<20>25 filing fee in each
   1-18  civil case filed in the court to be used for court-related purposes
   1-19  for the support of the judiciary.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  This Act applies only to filing fees for civil
   1-21  cases filed on or after the effective date of this Act.
   1-22        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.