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Indigent defense commission wins partial funding; commission touts omnibus bill and bemoans unmet pipeline requests
Summary
Texas Indigent Defense Commission received modest budget increases and an omnibus bill (SB 2111) passed; commissioners say key requests to shore up rural attorney pipelines and family representation remain underfunded.
Texas Indigent Defense Commission (TIDC) Executive Director Scott Ehlers briefed the Judicial Council on the agency’s budget, recent board changes and an omnibus bill that cleared the legislature.
Ehlers said TIDC requested $111 million in exceptional items across several priorities—addressing a structural shortfall in the fair defense account, a rural attorney pipeline program, family representation funding, and expanded…
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