Bill Text: TX HB1245 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the allocation of money in the judicial and court personnel training fund.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [HB1245 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1245-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1245 | ||
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| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1245 was passed by the House on May 6, | ||
| 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 15, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1245 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
