AB 655, as amended, Quirk-Silva. Court reporters: salary fund.
Existing law provides for the appointment of official reporters of the courts, and prescribes the fees and compensation for reporting services. Existing law requires the charge of an official court reporter fee, in addition to any other fee required in civil actions or cases, for the services of an official court reporter on the first and each succeeding judicial day those services are provided, as specified. Fees collected pursuant to this provision may be used only to pay for services of an official court reporter in civil proceedings.
Existing law, applicable to proceedings in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, directs specified amounts to be set aside from the revenue of the court, including fees for reporting services payable by the parties, for deposit in the Reporters’ Salary Fund. Existing law requires the salaries and benefits of official reporters to be paid from the fund, and authorizes the per diem fees and benefits of official reporters pro tempore to be paid from that fund.
This bill would authorize each trial court to establish a Reporters’ Salary Fund for the payment of the salaries and benefits of official reporters, as specified.begin delete This bill would authorize a trial court to establish cooperative agreements with the state, county, city and county, or cities within the county to deposit into the Reporters’ Salary Fund a portion of revenues from fees, fines, and forfeitures collected by the trial court on behalf of the state, county, city and county, or cities within the county.end delete
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 73000)
2is added to Title 8 of the Government Code, to read:
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Each trial court may establish a Reporters’ Salary Fund.
begin delete(a)end deletebegin delete end deletebegin deleteNotwithstanding any other law, each trial court
8may establish cooperative agreements with the state, county, city
9and county, or cities within the county to deposit into the Reporters’
10Salary Fund a portion of revenues from fees, fines, and forfeitures
11collected by the trial court on behalf of the state, county, city and
12county, or cities within the county.end delete
13(b) At the time of each monthly distribution of the revenue of
14the court to the appropriate funds of the state, county, city and
15county, or city within the county, as required by law, the clerk of
16the court shall deduct the agreed upon sum applicable to each
17entity, and deposit it in the Reporters’ Salary Fund.
18begin delete(c)end deletebegin delete end deleteThe Reporters’ Salary Fund shall be a revolving fundbegin delete that . Funds deposited
19is funded in the amount agreed upon by the partiesend delete
20into the Reporters’ Salary Fund shall, upon appropriation, be
used
21solely to contribute to the salaries and benefits of official reporters.
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