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.) Click here to see the committee vote

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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