84R8796 LED-D
By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 967
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a district clerk to collect certain
fees for providing electronic copies of court records.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.318, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) Notwithstanding Subsection (b)(8), the district clerk
may not charge a fee for a noncertified electronic copy of any
electronic document on file or of record in the clerk's office,
unless the copy is provided in a bulk distribution. In this
subsection, "bulk distribution" means the distribution of all or a
significant subset of the electronic records on file or of record in
the clerk's office.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act does not
affect a fee that became payable before the effective date of this
Act. A fee that became payable before the effective date of this Act
is governed by the law in effect when the fee became payable, and
the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.