By Gallego H.B. No. 787
75R2974 MLS-F
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.