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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the judicial and court personnel training fund. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 56.001, Government Code, is amended to |
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read as follows: |
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Sec. 56.001. JUDICIAL AND COURT PERSONNEL TRAINING FUND. |
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(a) The judicial and court personnel training fund is an account in |
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the general revenue fund. Money in the judicial and court personnel |
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training fund may be appropriated only to [created in the state
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treasury and shall be administered by] the court of criminal |
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appeals for the uses authorized in Section 56.003. |
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(b) [(i)] On requisition of the court of criminal appeals, |
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the comptroller shall draw a warrant on the fund for the amount |
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specified in the requisition for a use authorized in Section |
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56.003. A warrant may not exceed the amount appropriated for any |
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one fiscal year. [At the end of each state fiscal year, any
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unexpended balance in the fund in excess of $500,000 shall be
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transferred to the general revenue fund.] |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |