By: Montford S.B. No. 749 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the fines and costs imposed on a defendant convicted in 1-2 a municipal court. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Article 43.09, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsection (m) to read as follows: 1-6 (m) Fines and costs imposed by a municipal court, regardless 1-7 of whether the court is a court of record, may be discharged in the 1-8 manner provided by Subsection (f) of this article. A community 1-9 supervision and corrections department or a court-related services 1-10 office may provide the administrative duties and other services 1-11 necessary for the placement in programs under this article of a 1-12 defendant convicted in a municipal court, regardless of whether the 1-13 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.