By: Whitmire	S.B. No. 418
	(In the Senate - Filed January 30, 2015; February 4, 2015,
	read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
	February 9, 2015, rereferred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
	April 20, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 20, 2015,
	sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 418	By:  Whitmire

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to requests by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct
	for certain records held by court reporters.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 33.030, Government Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
	(c)  If an official court reporter has a backup audio media
	recording of a court proceeding, the court reporter on request of
	the commission shall produce to the commission at no cost to the
	commission a true and correct copy of the backup audio media
	recording.
	SECTION 2.  Section 52.046, Government Code, as amended by
	this Act, applies only to conduct that occurs on or after the
	effective date of this Act.  Conduct that occurs before the
	effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
	date the conduct occurred, and the former law is continued in effect
	for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 15, 2015.
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