The General Appropriations Act provides funding for the purchase of new computer systems to replace currently outdated equipment. The new computer systems will expedite the processing of cases within each court, facilitate equalization of court dockets among the fourteen courts of appeals, and allow the courts to interface electronically with each other and the Office of Court Administration.
Appropriations provide for additional attorneys to meet increasing caseloads.
Legislation enacted by the Seventy-fourth Legislature requires the Court of Criminal Appeals to develop a procedure for expediting the application for writ of habeas corpus by an inmate sentenced to death. As set by the General Appropriations Act.