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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