82R4301 KLA-D
By: Otto H.B. No. 3658
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the judicial and court personnel training fund.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 56.001, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 56.001. JUDICIAL AND COURT PERSONNEL TRAINING FUND.
(a) The judicial and court personnel training fund is an account in
the general revenue fund. Money in the judicial and court personnel
training fund may be appropriated only to [created in the state
treasury and shall be administered by] the court of criminal
appeals for the uses authorized in Section 56.003.
(b) [(i)] On requisition of the court of criminal appeals,
the comptroller shall draw a warrant on the fund for the amount
specified in the requisition for a use authorized in Section
56.003. A warrant may not exceed the amount appropriated for any
one fiscal year. [At the end of each state fiscal year, any
unexpended balance in the fund in excess of $500,000 shall be
transferred to the general revenue fund.]
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.