By: Carona S.B. No. 424
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the examination required for certification as a court
1-2 reporter.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 52.023, Government Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) Part A consists of five minutes of two-voice dictation
1-7 of questions and answers given at 225 words per minute, five
1-8 minutes of dictation of jury charges given at 200 words per minute,
1-9 and five minutes of dictation of selected literary material given
1-10 at 180 words per minute. Each applicant must personally take down
1-11 the test material, either in writing or in voice, and must prepare
1-12 [type] a transcript of the material taken down. [The applicant may
1-13 use either a manual or an electric typewriter.] The minimum
1-14 passing grade for each section of Part A is 95 percent. A
1-15 dictionary may be used during Part A. Each applicant has three
1-16 hours to complete the transcription of Part A. If an applicant
1-17 finishes before the three hours have elapsed, the applicant may
1-18 review the transcript but may use only the test material taken down
1-19 by that applicant to review the transcript. An error is charged
1-20 for:
1-21 (1) each wrong word;
1-22 (2) each omitted word;
1-23 (3) each word added by the applicant that was not
1-24 dictated;
2-1 (4) each contraction interpreted by the applicant as
2-2 two words;
2-3 (5) two words interpreted by the applicant as a
2-4 contraction;
2-5 (6) each misplaced word;
2-6 (7) each misplaced period that materially alters the
2-7 sense of a group of words or a sentence;
2-8 (8) each misspelled word;
2-9 (9) the use of the plural or singular if the opposite
2-10 was dictated; and
2-11 (10) each wrong number.
2-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-18 passage, and it is so enacted.