Bill Text: TX HB3662 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to fees for process server certification.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - Referred to Appropriations [HB3662 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3662-Introduced.html
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| By: Otto | H.B. No. 3662 | |
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| relating to fees for process server certification. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 51, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.008 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.008. FEES FOR PROCESS SERVER CERTIFICATION. (a) | ||
| The process server review board established by supreme court order | ||
| may recommend to the supreme court the fees to be charged for | ||
| process server certification and renewal of certification. The | ||
| supreme court must approve the fees recommended by the process | ||
| server review board before the fees may be collected. | ||
| (b) If a certification is issued or renewed for a term that | ||
| is less than the certification period provided by supreme court | ||
| rule, the fee for the certification shall be prorated so that the | ||
| process server pays only that portion of the fee that is allocable | ||
| to the period during which the certification is valid. On renewal | ||
| of the certification on the new expiration date, the process server | ||
| must pay the entire certification renewal fee. | ||
| (c) The Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial | ||
| System may collect the fees recommended by the process server | ||
| review board and approved by the supreme court. Fees collected | ||
| under this section shall be sent to the comptroller for deposit to | ||
| the credit of the general revenue fund. | ||
| (d) Fees collected under this section may be appropriated to | ||
| the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System for | ||
| the support of regulatory programs for process servers and | ||
| guardians. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) The fees recommended and approved under | ||
| Section 51.008, Government Code, as added by this Act, apply to: | ||
| (1) each person who holds a process server | ||
| certification on the effective date of this Act; and | ||
| (2) each person who applies for process server | ||
| certification on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| (b) The Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial | ||
| System shall prorate the process server certification fee so that a | ||
| person who holds a process server certification on the effective | ||
| date of this Act pays only that portion of the fee that is allocable | ||
| to the period during which the certification is valid. On renewal | ||
| of the certification on the new expiration date, the entire | ||
| certification renewal fee is payable. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
