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.