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.