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.