Bill Text: TX SB556 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an exemption from court reporter transcript fees for a county that provides and maintains court reporting equipment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-17 - Referred to Jurisprudence [SB556 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB556-Introduced.html
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| By: West | S.B. No. 556 | |
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| relating to an exemption from court reporter transcript fees for a | ||
| county that provides and maintains court reporting equipment. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 52, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 52.060 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 52.060. TRANSCRIPT FEE EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN COUNTIES. | ||
| (a) This section applies only to a county that provides and | ||
| maintains court reporting equipment for a court in the county in | ||
| accordance with the county's established plan for the periodic | ||
| replacement of obsolete equipment. | ||
| (b) A county official or employee while transacting county | ||
| business is exempt from the payment of any fee authorized under this | ||
| chapter for issuance of a transcript of a case heard in a court for | ||
| which the county provides and maintains court reporting equipment | ||
| in accordance with the plan described by Subsection (a). | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 52.060, Government Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to a fee for a transcript requested in | ||
| accordance with that section on or after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
