By: Saunders H.B. No. 99
73R318 GWK-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to records of fines and fees collected in criminal cases.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Article 103.009, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Art. 103.009. Fee Records <Books>. (a) Each clerk of a
1-7 court, county judge, justice of the peace, sheriff, constable, and
1-8 marshal shall keep a fee record <book>. The record <fee book> must
1-9 contain:
1-10 (1) a statement of each fee or item of cost charged
1-11 for a service rendered in a criminal action or proceeding;
1-12 (2) the number and style of the action or proceeding;
1-13 and
1-14 (3) the name of the officer or person who is entitled
1-15 to receive the fee.
1-16 (b) Any person may inspect a fee record <book> described by
1-17 Subsection (a).
1-18 (c) A statement of an item of cost in a fee record <book> is
1-19 prima facie evidence of the correctness of the statement.
1-20 (d) The county shall provide <fee books> to officers
1-21 required to keep a fee record <the books> by this article equipment
1-22 and supplies necessary to keep the record.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.