By Uher H.B. No. 1072
76R5186 GJH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the examination required for certification as a court
1-3 reporter.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 52.023(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) Part A consists of five minutes of two-voice dictation
1-8 of questions and answers given at 225 words per minute, five
1-9 minutes of dictation of jury charges given at 200 words per minute,
1-10 and five minutes of dictation of selected literary material given
1-11 at 180 words per minute. Each applicant must personally take down
1-12 the test material, either in writing or in voice, and must prepare
1-13 [type] a transcript of the material taken down. [The applicant may
1-14 use either a manual or an electric typewriter.] The minimum
1-15 passing grade for each section of Part A is 95 percent. A
1-16 dictionary may be used during Part A. Each applicant has three
1-17 hours to complete the transcription of Part A. If an applicant
1-18 finishes before the three hours have elapsed, the applicant may
1-19 review the transcript but may use only the test material taken down
1-20 by that applicant to review the transcript. An error is charged
1-21 for:
1-22 (1) each wrong word;
1-23 (2) each omitted word;
1-24 (3) each word added by the applicant that was not
2-1 dictated;
2-2 (4) each contraction interpreted by the applicant as
2-3 two words;
2-4 (5) two words interpreted by the applicant as a
2-5 contraction;
2-6 (6) each misplaced word;
2-7 (7) each misplaced period that materially alters the
2-8 sense of a group of words or a sentence;
2-9 (8) each misspelled word;
2-10 (9) the use of the plural or singular if the opposite
2-11 was dictated; and
2-12 (10) each wrong number.
2-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-19 passage, and it is so enacted.