Tex. Government Code § 79.040: INDIGENT DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEM.

(a) By entering into an interlocal contract with one or more counties under Chapter 791, the commission may participate and assist counties in the creation, implementation, operation, and maintenance of a computerized system to be used to assist those counties in the provision and administration of indigent defense services and to be used to collect data from those counties regarding representation of indigent defendants in this state.

(b) The commission may use appropriated funds to pay costs incurred under an interlocal contract described by Subsection (a), including license fees, implementation costs, maintenance and operations costs, administrative costs, and any other costs specified in the interlocal contract.

(c) The commission may provide training services to counties on the use and operation of a system created, implemented, operated, or maintained by one or more counties under Subsection (a).

(d) Subchapter L, Chapter 2054, does not apply to an indigent defense information system created under this section.

Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 56 (S.B. 1353), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2015.