1-1  By:  Montford                                          S.B. No. 749
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1993; March 10, 1993, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
    1-4  March 31, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
    1-5  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 31, 1993,
    1-6  sent to printer.)
    1-7                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-8                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-9        Whitmire           x                               
   1-10        Brown                                          x   
   1-11        Nelson             x                               
   1-12        Sibley             x                               
   1-13        Sims                                           x   
   1-14        Turner             x                               
   1-15        West               x                               
   1-16  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 749                   By:  Sibley
   1-17                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-18                                AN ACT
   1-19  relating to the fines and costs imposed on a defendant convicted in
   1-20  a municipal court.
   1-21        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-22        SECTION 1.  Article 43.09, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-23  amended by adding Subsection (m) to read as follows:
   1-24        (m)  Fines and costs imposed by a municipal court, regardless
   1-25  of whether the court is a court of record, may be discharged in the
   1-26  manner provided by this article.  A community supervision and
   1-27  corrections department or a court-related services office may
   1-28  provide the administrative duties and other services necessary for
   1-29  the placement in programs under this article of a defendant
   1-30  convicted in a municipal court, regardless of whether the municipal
   1-31  court is a court of record.
   1-32        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-33  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-34  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-35  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-36  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-37  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-38  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-40                                                         Austin,
   1-41  Texas
   1-42                                                         March 31, 1993
   1-43  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-44  President of the Senate
   1-45  Sir:
   1-46  We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred S.B.
   1-47  No. 749, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
   1-48  to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-49  not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof
   1-50  do pass and be printed.
   1-51                                                         Whitmire,
   1-52  Chairman
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   1-54                               WITNESSES
   1-55  No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 749.