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Order Setting Court Reporter Fees (including Indigent Cases) — Fort Bend County. The operative requirements are quoted verbatim from the governing document (registered/posted 04/21/2026); the document in custody is the controlling text.
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[Seal: The State of Texas, Fort Bend County] ORDER Be it remembered on this day, the following fees charged by Official Court Reporters or Deputy Court Reporters for Fort Bend Count, Texas, are in effect: [Table: service | fee] Original & 1 copy | $6.00 per page Original & 1 Rush | $8.50-12.50 per page (depending on time due) Expert Test/Tech. | + $1.00 per page Additional Copy | $2.00 per page Exhibits | $1.00 per page Exhibit Indexing | $1.00 per page Index Pages | $9.00 per page Keyword Index Page | $1.50 per page Binding/Prep | $12.00 per volume Delivery | $10.00 plus cost CD Electronic | $30.00 MPE/MP4 Exhibit | $30.00 Digital Transcription | $8.00 Digital Rush | $14.00 Rough daily and final daily as agreed with Judge and court reporter on indigent cases. Fees for rush, rough and final daily copy, and all other court reporter services shall be contracted between the Official Court Reporter and the requesting party or parties. Deputy reporters shall be subject to this Order. SIGNED AND ENTERED THIS THE 8 [handwritten] DAY OF April [handwritten], 2026. District Court Judges: [signature] Surendran K. Pattel, Presiding Judge, 240th Judicial District Court [signature] Steve Rogers, Presiding Judge, 268th Judicial District Court [signature] Monica Rawlins, Presiding Judge, 328th Judicial District Court [signature] Oscar M. Telfair III, Presiding Judge, 387th Judicial District Court [signature] Edward M. Krenek, Presiding Judge, 400th Judicial District Court [signature] J. Christian Becerra, Presiding Judge, 434th Judicial District Court, Local Administrative Judge [signature] Maggie Perez-Jaramillo, Presiding Judge, 458th Judicial District Court [signature] Richard T. Bell, Presiding Judge, 501st Judicial District Court [signature] Mark H. Hanna, Presiding Judge, 502nd Judicial District Court [signature] Kali Morgan, Presiding Judge, 505th Judicial District Court County Court at Law Judges: [signature] Christopher G. Morales, Presiding Judge, County Court at Law No. 1 [signature] Tyra J. McCollum, Presiding Judge, County Court at Law No. 2 [signature] Juli A. Mathew, Presiding Judge, County Court at Law No. 3 [signature] Toni M. Wallace, Presiding Judge, County Court at Law No. 4, County Court Administrative Judge [signature] Teana V. Watson, Presiding Judge, County Court at Law No. 5 [signature] Dean Hrbacek, Presiding Judge, County Court at Law No. 6 [File stamp: FILED, APR 21 2026, AT 8:10 [handwritten] A M., CLERK DISTRICT COURT, FORT BEND CO., TX, with the clerk's signature] [Stamp: COPY, ORIGINAL filed on 4/21/26 [handwritten] in the MISD [handwritten] records. Copies NOT compared. LAURA RICHARD, County Clerk, By [signature]]
[Seal: The State of Texas, Fort Bend County] ORDER Be it remembered on this day, the following fees charged by Official Court Reporters or Deputy Court Reporters for Fort Bend Count, Texas, are in effect: [Table: service | fee] Original & 1 copy | $6.00 per page Original & 1 Rush | $8.50-12.50 per page (depending on time due) Expert Test/Tech. | + $1.00 per page Additional Copy | $2.00 per page Ex
Reviewer note: Operative provisions transcribed verbatim by vision-read of the registered scanned document (rasterized at 170 dpi and read page-by-page this session); the registered document (sha256 d2dd09329ecb…) is the controlling text. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 d2dd09329ecb..., 2 page(s), image-only scan; the OCR layer used as a typing base and corrected word by word from the page) read against the rendered file; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.