By Gallego H.B. No. 2705
76R9099 JMM-F
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.