Bill Text: TX HB1614 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to fees for process server certification.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB1614 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1614-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to fees for process server certification.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB1614 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1614-Engrossed.html
By: Gooden, Pitts, Jackson | H.B. No. 1614 |
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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 and may be appropriated only | ||
to the office for purposes of this section. | ||
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. |