1-1 By: Gallego (Senate Sponsor - Ellis) H.B. No. 787
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 1997;
1-3 April 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 13, 1997, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 1; May 13, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to fees collected by a court of appeals.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 51.207(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-11 read as follows:
1-12 (b) The fees are:
1-13 (1) for cases appealed to and filed in the court of
1-14 appeals from the district and county courts within its court of
1-15 appeals district ....................................... $100 [$50]
1-16 (2) motion for leave to file petition for writ of
1-17 mandamus, prohibition, injunction, and other similar proceedings
1-18 originating in the court of appeals ..................... $50 [$20]
1-19 (3) additional fee if the motion under Subdivision (2)
1-20 is granted .............................................. $75 [$30]
1-21 (4) motion to file or to extend time to file record on
1-22 appeal from district or county court ..................... $10 [$5]
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. The
1-24 changes in law made by this Act apply only to a fee that becomes
1-25 payable on or after the effective date of this Act. A fee that
1-26 became payable before the effective date of this Act is governed by
1-27 the law in effect at the time the fee became payable, and that law
1-28 is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-29 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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