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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to making an appropriation to provide grants to assist |
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counties in providing indigent defense services. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. In addition to other amounts appropriated to the |
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Texas Judicial Council for the state fiscal biennium ending August |
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31, 2019, $15,795,000 is appropriated to the council for the state |
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fiscal year ending August 31, 2018, and $15,400,000 is appropriated |
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to the council for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2019, |
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from the Fair Defense Account No. 5073 for Strategy D.1.1., Texas |
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Indigent Defense Commission, as listed in S.B. 1, Acts of the 85th |
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Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 (the General Appropriations |
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Act), for the purpose of that commission making grants to assist |
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counties in providing indigent defense services as provided by |
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Section 79.037, Government Code. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the |
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legislative session. |