HB 1234 Summary

• Appropriates funds from the General Revenue Fund to the Court of Criminal Appeals for fiscal year ending June 30, 2016 to perform duties imposed by law.

• Authorizes the Court of Criminal Appeals to employ temporary employees as needed to maintain timely disposition of criminal appeal cases, exempting them from full-time-equivalent employee limitations.

• Sets employee duties and compensation to be determined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals, with budgetary limitations of 0.0 full-time-equivalent employees and $0.00 for lease-purchase agreements for FY-16.

• Permits appropriations to be budgeted for either FY-16 (ending June 30, 2016) or FY-17 (ending June 30, 2017), with funds encumbered by June 30 of each year and expended by November 15 of the following year.

• Becomes effective July 1, 2015.