1-1 By: Armbrister S.B. No. 1187
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1999; March 11, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 April 15, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; April 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Ellis
1-7 Amend S.B. No. 1187 by inserting the following appropriately
1-8 numbered SECTIONS and renumbering the SECTIONS of the bill
1-9 accordingly:
1-10 SECTION __. Section 22.110, Government Code, is amended by
1-11 amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
1-12 follows:
1-13 (b) The court of criminal appeals shall adopt the rules
1-14 necessary to accomplish the purposes of this section. The rules
1-15 must require each district judge, [and each] judge of a statutory
1-16 county court, associate judge appointed under Chapter 54 of this
1-17 code or Chapter 201, Family Code, master, referee, and magistrate
1-18 to complete at least eight hours of the training within the judge's
1-19 first term of office or the judicial officer's first four years of
1-20 service and provide a method for certification of completion of
1-21 that training. At least six hours of the training must be
1-22 dedicated to the training described by Subsections (d)(5), (6), and
1-23 (7). The rules must require each judge and judicial officer to
1-24 complete an additional three hours of training during each
1-25 additional term in office or four years of service. The rules must
1-26 exempt from the training requirement of this subsection each judge
1-27 or judicial officer who files an affidavit stating that the judge
1-28 or judicial officer does not hear any cases involving family
1-29 violence, sexual assault, or child abuse.
1-30 (e) The court of criminal appeals or the court's designee
1-31 shall report the name of a judge or judicial officer who does not
1-32 comply with the requirements of this section to the State
1-33 Commission on Judicial Conduct.
1-34 SECTION __. (a) This Act takes effect August 31, 1999.
1-35 Each judge or judicial officer who is in office on August 31, 1999,
1-36 must complete the judicial training required by Section 22.110,
1-37 Government Code, as amended by this Act, notwithstanding the
1-38 requirement of that section that the training be completed within
1-39 the first term of office or first four years of service. The
1-40 training must be completed before the judge or judicial officer who
1-41 is in office on August 31, 1999, begins another term of office as a
1-42 judge or completes another year of service as a judicial officer.
1-43 (b) A judge or judicial officer who takes office on or after
1-44 September 1, 1999, and who has not otherwise satisfied the
1-45 requirements of Section 22.110, Government Code, as amended by this
1-46 Act, must complete the judicial training required by that section
1-47 within the judge's first term of office that begins on or after
1-48 that date or within the judicial officer's first four years of
1-49 service.
1-50 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-51 AN ACT
1-52 relating to the Judicial and Court Personnel Training Fund.
1-53 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-54 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 56.001, Government Code,
1-55 is amended to read as follows:
1-56 (b) In addition to other court costs, a person shall pay $2
1-57 [$1] as a court cost on conviction of any criminal offense,
1-58 including cases in which probation or deferred adjudication is
1-59 granted or in which final disposition in the case is deferred. A
1-60 conviction that arises under Chapter 521, Transportation Code, or a
1-61 conviction under Subtitle C, Title 7, Transportation Code, is
1-62 included, except that a conviction arising under any law that
1-63 regulates pedestrians or the parking of motor vehicles is not
2-1 included.
2-2 SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 56.003, Government Code,
2-3 is amended to read as follows:
2-4 (b) No more than one-third of the funds appropriated for any
2-5 fiscal year shall be used for the continuing legal education of
2-6 judges of appellate courts, district courts, county courts at law,
2-7 [and] county courts performing judicial functions, full-time
2-8 associate judges appointed pursuant to Section 201.001, Family
2-9 Code, and full-time masters, magistrates, referees, and associate
2-10 judges appointed pursuant to Chapter 54 as required by the court of
2-11 criminal appeals under Section 74.025 and of their court personnel.
2-12 SECTION 3. 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.
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