1-1        By:  Moncrief                                   S.B. No. 1338
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1995; March 20, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
    1-4  April 19, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the administration of the judicial and court personnel
    1-9  training fund.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 56.006, Government Code, is amended to
   1-12  read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 56.006.  RULES; OVERSIGHT.  (a)  The court of criminal
   1-14  appeals may adopt rules for programs relating to education and
   1-15  training for attorneys, judges, court personnel, and justices of
   1-16  the peace as provided by Section 56.003 and for the administration
   1-17  of those programs, including rules that:
   1-18              (1)  require entities receiving a grant of funds to
   1-19  provide legislatively required training; and
   1-20              (2)  base the awarding of grant funds to an entity on
   1-21  qualitative information about the entity's programs or services and
   1-22  the entity's ability to meet financial performance standards.
   1-23        (b)  The court of criminal appeals, for the proper
   1-24  administration of this chapter and as part of its oversight of
   1-25  training programs for attorneys, judges, court personnel, and
   1-26  justices of the peace as provided by Section 56.003, shall monitor
   1-27  both the financial performance and the program performance of
   1-28  entities receiving a grant of funds under this chapter.
   1-29        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-30        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-31  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-32  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-33  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-34  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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