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.