By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1187
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the Judicial and Court Personnel Training Fund.
 1-2     SECTION 1.  Section 56.001(b), Government Code, is amended to read
 1-3     as follows:
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           (b)  In addition to other court costs, a person shall pay $2
 1-6     [$1] as a court cost on conviction of any criminal offense,
 1-7     including cases in which probation or deferred adjudication is
 1-8     granted or in which final disposition in the case is deferred.  A
 1-9     conviction that arises under Chapter 521, Transportation Code, or a
1-10     conviction under Subtitle C, Title 7, Transportation Code, is
1-11     included, except that a conviction arising under any law that
1-12     regulates pedestrians or the parking of motor vehicles is not
1-13     included.
1-14     SECTION 2.  Section 56.003(b), Government Code, is amended to read
1-15     as follows:
1-16           (b)  No more than one-third of the funds appropriated for any
1-17     fiscal year shall be used for the continuing legal education of
1-18     judges or appellate courts, district courts, county courts at law,
1-19     [and] county courts performing judicial functions, full time
1-20     associate judges appointed pursuant to Section 201.001, Family
1-21     Code, and full time masters, magistrates, referees, and associate
1-22     judges appointed pursuant to chapter 54, Government Code, as
 2-1     required by the court of criminal appeals under Section 74.025 and
 2-2     of their court personnel.
 2-3     SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the crowded
 2-4     condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and
 2-5     an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule
 2-6     requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be
 2-7     suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.