By: Solis H.B. No. 1618 73R5282 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a fee to finance certain security services at a 1-3 courthouse. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 291, Local Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 291.007 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 291.007. FEE FOR SECURITY. (a) A person convicted of 1-8 a criminal offense in a criminal case filed in a county or district 1-9 court in the county shall pay as court costs $5 in addition to 1-10 other taxable court costs. The additional $5 court cost shall be 1-11 collected in the same manner that other fines or court costs in the 1-12 case are collected. 1-13 (b) This section applies to a conviction for an offense 1-14 under the state traffic laws if the offense is defined in: 1-15 (1) Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th Legislature, Regular 1-16 Session, 1941 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and 1-17 its subsequent amendments; or 1-18 (2) the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways 1-19 (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) and its subsequent 1-20 amendments, except Sections 34, 76-81, and 93-97 of that Act. 1-21 (c) The clerks of the respective courts shall collect the 1-22 costs and pay them to the county treasurer, or to any other 1-23 official who discharges the duties commonly delegated to the county 1-24 treasurer, for deposit in a fund to be known as the courthouse 2-1 entrance security fund. The fund may be used only for the purpose 2-2 of providing a metal detector and security personnel to operate the 2-3 detector at entrances to the county courthouse. 2-4 (d) The courthouse entrance security fund shall be 2-5 administered by or under the direction of the commissioners court. 2-6 (e) In this section, a person is considered to have been 2-7 convicted in a case if: 2-8 (1) a sentence is imposed; 2-9 (2) the defendant receives probation or deferred 2-10 adjudication; or 2-11 (3) the court defers final disposition of the case. 2-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and 2-13 applies only to a conviction in a criminal case that occurs on or 2-14 after that date. 2-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.