S.B. No. 749
                                        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.