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By: Murr H.B. No. 286
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to making an appropriation to provide grants to assist
counties in providing indigent defense services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. In addition to other amounts appropriated to the
Texas Judicial Council for the state fiscal biennium ending August
31, 2019, $15,795,000 is appropriated to the council for the state
fiscal year ending August 31, 2018, and $15,400,000 is appropriated
to the council for the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2019,
from the Fair Defense Account No. 5073 for Strategy D.1.1., Texas
Indigent Defense Commission, as listed in S.B. 1, Acts of the 85th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2017 (the General Appropriations
Act), for the purpose of that commission making grants to assist
counties in providing indigent defense services as provided by
Section 79.037, Government Code.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the
legislative session.