| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to the allocation of money in the judicial and court |
|
|
personnel training fund. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 56.004, Government Code, is amended by |
|
|
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as |
|
|
follows: |
|
|
(b) The legislature shall appropriate funds from the |
|
|
judicial and court personnel training fund to the court of criminal |
|
|
appeals to provide for: |
|
|
(1) continuing legal education, technical assistance, |
|
|
and other support programs for prosecuting attorneys and their |
|
|
personnel, criminal defense attorneys who regularly represent |
|
|
indigent defendants in criminal matters and their personnel, and |
|
|
justices of the peace and their court personnel; and |
|
|
(2) innocence training programs for law enforcement |
|
|
officers, law students, and other participants. |
|
|
(c) An allocation of funds to provide for continuing legal |
|
|
education, technical assistance, and other support programs for the |
|
|
personnel of criminal defense attorneys who regularly represent |
|
|
indigent defendants in criminal matters as described by Subsection |
|
|
(b)(1) must come from the grant of legal funds made by the court of |
|
|
criminal appeals under Section 56.003(f). |
|
|
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2014 |
|
|
. |