By Gallego                                            H.B. No. 2705
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the collection and use of certain money in the judicial
 1-3     and court personnel training fund.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 56.001(b), Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  In addition to other court costs, a person shall pay $2
 1-8     [$1] as a court cost on conviction of any criminal offense,
 1-9     including cases in  which probation or deferred adjudication is
1-10     granted or in which final disposition in the case is deferred.  A
1-11     conviction that arises under Chapter 521, Transportation Code, or a
1-12     conviction under Subtitle C, Title 7, Transportation Code, is
1-13     included, except that a conviction arising under any law that
1-14     regulates pedestrians or the parking of motor vehicles is not
1-15     included.
1-16           SECTION 2.  Section 56.003(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-17     read as follows:
1-18           (b)  No more than one-third of the funds appropriated for any
1-19     fiscal year shall be used for the continuing legal education of
1-20     judges of appellate courts, district courts, county courts at law,
1-21     full-time associate judges appointed under Section 201.001, Family
1-22     Code, full-time masters, magistrates, referees, and associate
1-23     judges appointed  under Chapter 54, and county courts performing
1-24     judicial functions as required by the court of criminal appeals
 2-1     under Section 74.025 and of their court personnel.
 2-2           SECTION 3.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-3           (b)  The change in law made by this Act to Section 56.001(b),
 2-4     Government Code, applies only to an offense committed on or after
 2-5     the effective date of this Act.  For purposes of this section, an
 2-6     offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any
 2-7     element of the offense occurs before that date.
 2-8           (c)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
 2-9     Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
2-10     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-11           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.