The Senate Jurisprudence Committee is considering a bill that significantly would cut the costs for electronically filing court documents, while also helping the state pay for the new e-filing system that debuts this fall. Another bill would reimburse counties for the costs of technological upgrades to plug into the new e-filing system.
Although Senate Bill 1146 creates new, per-case civil fees and criminal costs, the bill actually would save money for litigants because the per-case charge would cover all e-filing, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson told the committee on March 19.
