By:  Gattis (Senate Sponsor - Ogden)                              H.B. No. 964
	(In the Senate - Received from the House March 30, 2005; 
April 5, 2005, read first time and referred to Committee on State 
Affairs; May 3, 2005, reported favorably by the following vote:  
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 3, 2005, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to the filing fee for candidates for justice of certain 
courts of appeals.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 172.024(a), Election Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
	(a)  The filing fee for a candidate for nomination in the 
general primary election is as follows:
		(1)  United States senator                  $5,000                            
		(2)  office elected statewide, except United States 
senator  3,750          
		(3)  United States representative            3,125                            
		(4)  state senator                           1,250                            
		(5)  state representative                      750                            
		(6)  member, State Board of Education          300                            
		(7)  chief justice or justice, court of appeals, other 
than a justice specified by Subdivision (8)  1,875   
		(8)  chief justice or justice of a court of appeals that 
serves a court of appeals district in which a county with a 
population of more than 750,000 [850,000] is wholly or partly 
situated  2,500   
		(9)  district judge or judge specified by Section 
52.092(d) for which this schedule does not otherwise prescribe a 
fee  1,500   
		(10)  district or criminal district judge of a court in 
a judicial district wholly contained in a county with a population 
of more than 850,000  2,500   
		(11)  judge, statutory county court, other than a judge 
specified by Subdivision (12)  1,500   
		(12)  judge of a statutory county court in a county with 
a population of more than 850,000  2,500   
		(13)  district attorney, criminal district attorney, 
or county attorney performing the duties of a district attorney

                                                                         1,250   
		(14)  county commissioner, county clerk, sheriff, 
county tax assessor-collector, county treasurer, or judge, 
constitutional county court:
			(A)  county with a population of 200,000 or more                             

                                                                         1,250   
			(B)  county with a population of under 200,000                               

                                                                           750   
		(15)  justice of the peace or constable:                                      
			(A)  county with a population of 200,000 or more                             

                                                                         1,000   
			(B)  county with a population of under 200,000                               

                                                                           375   
		(16)  county surveyor, inspector of hides and animals, 
or public weigher     75   
		(17)  office of the county government for which this 
schedule does not otherwise prescribe a fee    750   
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           



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