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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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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