H.B. No. 1245

	AN ACT
	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
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	Governor