1-1 By: Campbell (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 2535
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1993;
1-3 May 6, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
1-4 Justice; May 25, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 25, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Whitmire x
1-9 Brown x
1-10 Nelson x
1-11 Sibley x
1-12 Sims x
1-13 Turner x
1-14 West x
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to the authority of a community supervision and
1-18 corrections department, a commissioners court, or the pardons and
1-19 paroles division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to
1-20 enter into contracts for certain supervision or telecommunications
1-21 services.
1-22 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23 SECTION 1. Article 42.131, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-24 amended by adding Section 12 to read as follows:
1-25 Sec. 12. REPORTING AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES. A department
1-26 may enter into a contract with a public or private vendor for the
1-27 provision of telephone reporting, automated caseload management,
1-28 and collection services for fines, fees, restitution, and other
1-29 costs ordered to be paid by a court or fees imposed by a
1-30 department.
1-31 SECTION 2. Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-32 amended by adding Section 28 to read as follows:
1-33 Sec. 28. REPORTING AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES. The pardons and
1-34 paroles division, with the approval of the Texas Board of Criminal
1-35 Justice, may enter into a contract with a public or private vendor
1-36 for the provision of telephone reporting, automated caseload
1-37 management, and collection services for fines, fees, restitution,
1-38 and other costs ordered to be paid by a court or fees imposed by
1-39 the division.
1-40 SECTION 3. Chapter 103, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-41 amended by adding Article 103.0031 to read as follows:
1-42 Art. 103.0031. COLLECTION CONTRACTS. The commissioners
1-43 court of a county may enter into a contract with a public or
1-44 private vendor for the provision of collection services for fines,
1-45 fees, restitution, and other costs ordered to be paid by a court
1-46 serving the county.
1-47 SECTION 4. Article XIII, Public Utility Regulatory Act
1-48 (Article 1446c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
1-49 adding Section 93C to read as follows:
1-50 Sec. 93C. (a) A telecommunications utility that transports
1-51 or provides a "1-900" service under a contract authorized by
1-52 Article 42.131 or 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure, and its
1-53 subsequent amendments that is used by a defendant under the
1-54 supervision of a community supervision and corrections department
1-55 or the pardons and paroles division of the Texas Department of
1-56 Criminal Justice to pay a fee or cost or to comply with telephone
1-57 reporting requirements may adjust or authorize the adjustment of an
1-58 end-user's bill for those fees or costs or charges for reporting
1-59 only with the consent of the contracting community supervision and
1-60 corrections department or the contracting pardons and paroles
1-61 division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
1-62 (b) This section applies only to an intrastate "1-900"
1-63 service.
1-64 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-65 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-66 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-67 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-68 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-3 * * * * *
2-4 Austin,
2-5 Texas
2-6 May 25, 1993
2-7 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-8 President of the Senate
2-9 Sir:
2-10 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred H.B.
2-11 No. 2535, have had the same under consideration, and I am
2-12 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
2-13 that it do pass and be printed.
2-14 Whitmire,
2-15 Chairman
2-16 * * * * *
2-17 WITNESSES
2-18 FOR AGAINST ON
2-19 ___________________________________________________________________
2-20 Name: Joanne Bernal x
2-21 Representing: Tx. Attorney Gen.
2-22 City: Austin
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2-24 Name: Robin Sanders x
2-25 Representing: Texas Attorney General
2-26 City: Austin
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