BILL NUMBER: AB 655	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 14, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 8, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Quirk-Silva

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to add Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 73000) to Title
8 of the Government Code, relating to courts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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.  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.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 73000) is added to
Title 8 of the Government Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 9.5.  REPORTERS' SALARY FUND


   73000.  Each trial court may establish a Reporters' Salary Fund.
   73002.   (a)    
Notwithstanding any other law, each trial court may 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.  
   (b) At the time of each monthly distribution of the revenue of the
court to the appropriate funds of the state, county, city and
county, or city within the county, as required by law, the clerk of
the court shall deduct the agreed upon sum applicable to each entity,
and deposit it in the Reporters' Salary Fund. 
    (c)    The Reporters' Salary
Fund shall be a revolving fund  that is funded in the amount
agreed upon by the parties  . Funds deposited into the
Reporters' Salary Fund shall, upon appropriation, be used solely to
contribute to the salaries and benefits of official reporters.