By: Jones, Jesse H.B. No. 1508
73R888 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to court costs for certain parking and traffic
1-3 convictions.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections (a) and (c), Article 102.014, Code of
1-6 Criminal Procedure, are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) The governing body of a municipality with a population
1-8 greater than 850,000 according to the most recent federal decennial
1-9 census that has adopted an ordinance, regulation, or order
1-10 regulating the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles as
1-11 allowed by Subsection (a), Section 27, Uniform Act Regulating
1-12 Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-13 or Article 6701d-24, Revised Statutes, shall by order assess a
1-14 court cost on each parking violation not less than $2 and not to
1-15 exceed $10 <$5>. The court costs under this subsection shall be
1-16 collected in the same manner that other fines in the case are
1-17 collected.
1-18 (c) A person convicted of an offense under the Uniform Act
1-19 Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-20 Statutes), when the offense occurs within a school crossing zone as
1-21 defined by Section 20L of that Act, shall pay as court costs $25
1-22 <$20> in addition to other taxable court costs. A person convicted
1-23 of an offense under Section 104, Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
1-24 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), shall pay
2-1 as court costs $20 in addition to other taxable court costs. A
2-2 person convicted of an offense under Section 4.25, Education Code,
2-3 shall pay as taxable court costs $20 in addition to other taxable
2-4 court costs. The additional court costs under this subsection
2-5 shall be collected in the same manner that other fines and taxable
2-6 court costs in the case are collected.
2-7 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-8 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to an
2-9 offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. For
2-10 purposes of this Act, an offense was committed before the effective
2-11 date of this Act if any element of the offense occurred before the
2-12 effective date of this Act.
2-13 (c) An offense committed before the effective date of this
2-14 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
2-15 and the former law is continued in effect for this purpose.
2-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.