By: Turner of Harris (Senate Sponsor - Duncan) H.B. No. 1245
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 2013;
May 8, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
Jurisprudence; May 20, 2013, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 20, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.
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