Tom Berryhill voted Nay (Passage With Amendment) on this Legislation.
Title: Financing Courthouse Construction
Vote to concur with House Amendments and pass a bill that increases existing court, criminal, and civil fees and establishes new fees, the revenue of which will be deposited into the newly established Immediate and Critical Needs Account of the State Trial Court Operations Fund to issue bonds to finance the planning, construction, rehabilitation, leasing, or acquisition of court facilities.
- Establishes a $30 penalty for each misdemeanor or felony conviction, and $35 for each infraction, excluding parking violations [sec. 6.5 (a) (1)]. - Establishes a fee of $250 for an application to appear as council pro hac vice (for out-of-state council) in superior court, which is to be applied to each motion or other paper filed [sec. 13.5 (e-f)]. - Increases the transaction fee administered by the clerk of the court for a violation related to driving without a valid driver's license from $10 to $25 [sec. 30 (a)]. - Increases the state court construction penalty for parking penalties from $1.50 to $4.50 [sec. 6 (b)]. - Increases the fee from $180 to $200 for filling the following (Sec. 12, 14, 19, & 29):
Title: Financing Courthouse Construction
Vote to pass a bill that increases existing court, criminal, and civil fees and establishes new fees, the revenue of which will be deposited into the newly established Immediate and Critical Needs Account of the State Trial Court Operations Fund to issue bonds to finance the planning, construction, rehabilitation, leasing, or acquisition of court facilities.
- Establishes a $30 penalty for each misdemeanor or felony conviction, and $35 for each infraction, excluding parking violations [sec. 6.5 (a) (1)]. - Establishes a fee of $250 for an application to appear as council pro hac vice (for out-of-state council) in superior court, which is to be applied to each motion or other paper filed [sec. 13.5 (e-f)]. - Increases the transaction fee administered by the clerk of the court for a violation related to driving without a valid driver's license from $10 to $25 [sec. 30 (a)]. - Increases the state court construction penalty for parking penalties from $1.50 to $4.50 [sec. 6 (b)]. - Increases the fee from $180 to $200 for filling the following (Sec. 12, 14, 19, & 29):
Title: Financing Courthouse Construction
Vote to pass a bill that increases civil fees and criminal fines in order to fund the renovation, repair, and construction of state courthouses.
-Levies a fee of $40 on every conviction for a criminal offense, including a traffic violation, "to ensure and maintain adequate funding for court facilities" (Sec. 6.5). -Establishes the Immediate and Critical Needs Account of the State Court Facilities Construction Fund, the proceeds of which shall be used for the planning, design, construction, rehabilitation, renovation, replacement, or acquisition of court facilities (Sec. 5). -Levies a state court construction penalty of $5 for every $10 or part of $10 upon every fine, penalty, or forfeiture imposed and collected by the courts for all criminal offenses (Sec. 6). -Adds a state court construction penalty of $3.50 to every parking offense where a parking penalty, fine, or forfeiture is imposed (Sec. 6). -Allows the judge to waive all or any part of the state court construction penalty if the payment of it would create a hardship on the person convicted or his or her immediate family (Sec. 6). -Authorizes the State Public Works Board to issue up to $5 billion in bonds to finance the planning, design, construction, rehabilitation, renovation, replacement, leasing, or acquisition of court facilities (Sec. 7). -Establishes a fee of $355 for filing the first paper in a civil action or proceeding in the superior court other than in a limited civil case, an adoption proceeding, or a proceeding under the Family code, for filing the first petition for letters of administration, for filing objections to a petition, for filing petitions concerning the internal affairs of a trust, and for filing a petition for appointment of a conservator or guardian of an estate (Sec. 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20). -Establishes a fee of $330 for filing the first paper or notice of appeal in a limited civil case unless the amount demanded is $10,000 or less, in which case the fee is $205 (Sec. 12-14).
NOTE: A BILL WITH AN URGENCY CLAUSE REQUIRES A TWO-THIRDS VOTE OF EACH CHAMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE FOR THE CLAUSE TO PASS. IF PASSED, THE BILL GOES INTO EFFECT IMMEDIATELY UPON ENACTMENT.
Title: Financing Courthouse Construction