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.