76R10298 DB-D                           
         By Junell, Thompson, Gallego                           H.B. No. 928
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 928:
         By Thompson                                        C.S.H.B. No. 928
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the annual salary supplement paid by the state to
 1-3     certain county judges.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 26.006(a), Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  A county judge is entitled to an annual salary
 1-8     supplement from the state of $10,000 [$5,000] if at least 40
 1-9     percent of the functions that the judge performs are judicial
1-10     functions.
1-11           SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 26, Government Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Sections 26.007 and 26.008 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 26.007.  STATE CONTRIBUTION.  (a)  Beginning on the
1-14     first day of the state fiscal year, the state shall annually
1-15     compensate each county that collects the additional fees and costs
1-16     under Section 51.703 in an amount equal to $5,000 if the county
1-17     judge is entitled to an annual salary supplement from the state
1-18     under Section 26.006.
1-19           (b)  The amount shall be paid to the county's salary fund in
1-20     equal monthly installments from funds appropriated from the
1-21     judicial fund.
1-22           Sec. 26.008.  EXCESS CONTRIBUTIONS.  (a)  At the end of each
1-23     state fiscal year the comptroller shall determine the amounts
1-24     deposited in the judicial fund under Section 51.703 and the amounts
 2-1     paid to the counties under Section 26.007. If the total amount paid
 2-2     under Section 51.703 by all counties that collect fees and costs
 2-3     under that section exceeds the total amount paid to the counties
 2-4     under Section 26.007, the state shall remit the excess to the
 2-5     counties that collect fees and costs under Section 51.703
 2-6     proportionately based on the percentage of the total paid by each
 2-7     county.
 2-8           (b)  The amounts remitted under Subsection (a) shall be paid
 2-9     to the county's general fund to be used only for court-related
2-10     purposes for the support of the judiciary as provided by Section
2-11     21.006.
2-12           SECTION 3.  The heading to Section 51.702, Government Code,
2-13     is amended to read as follows:
2-14           Sec. 51.702.  ADDITIONAL FEES AND COSTS IN CERTAIN STATUTORY
2-15     COUNTY COURTS.
2-16           SECTION 4.  Subchapter H, Chapter 51, Government Code, is
2-17     amended by adding Section 51.703 to read as follows:
2-18           Sec. 51.703.  ADDITIONAL FEES AND COSTS IN CERTAIN COUNTY
2-19     COURTS.  (a)  In addition to all other fees authorized or required
2-20     by other law, the clerk of a county court with a judge who is
2-21     entitled to an annual salary supplement from the state under
2-22     Section 26.006 shall collect a $40 filing fee in each civil case
2-23     filed in the court to be used for court-related purposes for the
2-24     support of the judiciary.
2-25           (b)  In addition to other court costs, a person shall pay $15
2-26     as a court cost on conviction of any criminal offense in a county
2-27     court, including cases in which probation or deferred adjudication
 3-1     is granted.  A conviction that arises under Chapter 521,
 3-2     Transportation Code, or a conviction under Subtitle C, Title 7,
 3-3     Transportation Code, is included, except that a conviction arising
 3-4     under any law that regulates pedestrians or the parking of motor
 3-5     vehicles is not included.
 3-6           (c)  Court costs and fees due under this section shall be
 3-7     collected in the same manner as other fees, fines, or costs are
 3-8     collected in the case.
 3-9           (d)  The clerk shall send the fees and costs collected under
3-10     this section to the comptroller at least as frequently as monthly.
3-11     The comptroller shall deposit the fees in the judicial fund.
3-12           (e)  Section 51.320 applies to a fee or cost collected under
3-13     this section.
3-14           SECTION 5.  Section 51.703, Government Code, as added by this
3-15     Act, applies only to filing fees for civil cases filed and to costs
3-16     on convictions occurring on or after the effective date of this
3-17     Act.
3-18           SECTION 6.  The importance of this legislation and the
3-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-24     passage, and it is so enacted.