By: Price, Moody (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 598
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2019;
  April 15, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on State
  Affairs; April 29, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 29, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the use of funds appropriated for the continuing legal
  education of certain appointed masters, magistrates, referees, and
  associate judges.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 56.003(b), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b)  No more than one-third of the funds appropriated for any
  fiscal year shall be used for the continuing legal education of
  judges of appellate courts, district courts, county courts at law,
  county courts performing judicial functions, full-time associate
  judges and masters appointed pursuant to Chapter 201, Family Code,
  and full-time and part-time masters, magistrates, referees, and
  associate judges appointed pursuant to Chapter 54 or 54A as
  required by the court of criminal appeals under Section 74.025 and
  of their court personnel.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
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