By: Moncrief, West S.B. No. 1338 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the administration of the judicial and court personnel 1-2 training fund. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 56.006, Government Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 56.006. RULES; OVERSIGHT. (a) The court of criminal 1-7 appeals may adopt rules for programs relating to education and 1-8 training for attorneys, judges, court personnel, and justices of 1-9 the peace as provided by Section 56.003 and for the administration 1-10 of those programs, including rules that: 1-11 (1) require entities receiving a grant of funds to 1-12 provide legislatively required training; and 1-13 (2) base the awarding of grant funds to an entity on 1-14 qualitative information about the entity's programs or services and 1-15 the entity's ability to meet financial performance standards. 1-16 (b) The court of criminal appeals, for the proper 1-17 administration of this chapter and as part of its oversight of 1-18 training programs for attorneys, judges, court personnel, and 1-19 justices of the peace as provided by Section 56.003, shall monitor 1-20 both the financial performance and the program performance of 1-21 entities receiving a grant of funds under this chapter. 1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.