By Gallego                                             H.B. No. 787

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to fees collected by a court of appeals.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 51.207(b), Government Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           (b)  The fees are:

 1-7                 (1)  for cases appealed to and filed in the court of

 1-8     appeals from the district and county courts within its court of

 1-9     appeals district ....................................... $100 [$50]

1-10                 (2)  motion for leave to file petition for writ of

1-11     mandamus, prohibition, injunction, and other similar proceedings

1-12     originating in the court of appeals ..................... $50 [$20]

1-13                 (3)  additional fee if the motion under Subdivision (2)

1-14     is granted .............................................. $75 [$30]

1-15                 (4)  motion to file or to extend time to file record on

1-16     appeal from district or county court ..................... $10 [$5]

1-17           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.  The

1-18     changes in law made by this Act apply only to a fee that becomes

1-19     payable on or after the effective date of this Act.  A fee that

1-20     became payable before the effective date of this Act is governed by

1-21     the law in effect at the time the fee became payable, and that law

1-22     is continued in effect for that purpose.

1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.