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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