79S20435 JJT-F



By:  Bonnen                                                       H.B. No. 58 





A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to making appropriations to fund certain new district courts. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. (a) Article IV, Senate Bill No. 1, Acts of the 79th Legislature, Regular Session, 2005 (the General Appropriations Act), is amended by adding the following appropriations under Special Provisions - Judiciary: Sec. 16. An amount estimated to be $469,125 in the state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2005, and an amount estimated to be $748,800 in the state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2006, are appropriated out of Judicial Fund No. 573 to the Judiciary Section, Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, to fund district courts created on or after September 1, 2005, by Senate Bill No. 1189, Acts of the 79th Legislature, Regular Session, 2005. (b) Subsection (a) of this section takes effect only if H.B. No. 11, Acts of the 79th Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 2005, does not become law or if that bill does become law but does not make an appropriation to fund district courts created on or after September 1, 2005, by Senate Bill No. 1189, Acts of the 79th Legislature, Regular Session, 2005. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect December 1, 2005.