By Madla S.B. No. 1022 74R6152 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the imposition of a fee for the services of a court 1-3 reporter. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 52, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 52.0471 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 52.0471. COURT REPORTER FEE. (a) The district clerk 1-8 in a county with a population of one million or more shall collect 1-9 at the time a suit or action is filed a reasonable fee set by the 1-10 commissioners court for the services of a court reporter. 1-11 (b) A fee imposed under this section is in addition to any 1-12 fee imposed under Section 52.047 for furnishing a transcript. 1-13 SECTION 2. Section 52.0471, Government Code, as added by 1-14 this Act, applies only to a suit or action filed on or after the 1-15 effective date of this Act. 1-16 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-17 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.