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. 1-35 * * * * *