1-1  By:  Kamel, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Sibley)           H.B. No. 120
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1995;
    1-3  April 24, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Criminal Justice; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the imposition of a fee on a defendant who requests
    1-9  participation in a teen court program.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 54.032, Family Code, is amended by adding
   1-12  Subsection (g) to read as follows:
   1-13        (g)  In addition to the fee authorized by Subsection (e), the
   1-14  court may require a child who requests a teen court program to pay
   1-15  a $10 fee to cover the cost to the teen court for performing its
   1-16  duties under this section.  The court shall pay the fee to the teen
   1-17  court program, and the teen court program must account to the court
   1-18  for the receipt and disbursal of the fee.  A child who pays a fee
   1-19  under this subsection is not entitled to a refund of the fee,
   1-20  regardless of whether the child successfully completes the teen
   1-21  court program.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  Article 45.55, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-23  amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
   1-24        (g)  In addition to the fee authorized by Subsection (e) of
   1-25  this article, the court may require a child who requests a teen
   1-26  court program to pay a $10 fee to cover the cost to the teen court
   1-27  for performing its duties under this article.  The court shall pay
   1-28  the fee to the teen court program, and the teen court program must
   1-29  account to the court for the receipt and disbursal of the fee.  A
   1-30  child who pays a fee under this subsection is not entitled to a
   1-31  refund of the fee, regardless of whether the child successfully
   1-32  completes the teen court program.
   1-33        SECTION 3.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-34  only to a child charged with an offense committed on or after the
   1-35  effective date of this Act.  For purposes of this section, an
   1-36  offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any
   1-37  element of the offense occurs before the effective date.
   1-38        (b)  A child charged with an offense committed before the
   1-39  effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the
   1-40  offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect
   1-41  for this purpose.
   1-42        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-43        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-44  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-45  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-46  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-47  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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