By: West, B. H.B. No. 1746 73R5945 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the discharge of fines and costs by a defendant 1-3 convicted in a municipal court. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 43.09, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (m) to read as follows: 1-7 (m) Fines and costs imposed by a municipal court, regardless 1-8 of whether the court is a court of record, may be discharged in the 1-9 manner provided by this article. A community supervision and 1-10 corrections department may provide the administrative duties and 1-11 other services necessary for the placement in programs under this 1-12 article for a defendant convicted in a municipal court, regardless 1-13 of whether the municipal court is a court of record. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.