By Dear, Park, Kamel H.B. No. 330 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the payment of certain fees and court costs by a person 1-3 who successfully completes a teen court program. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 45.55, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-7 (g) A justice or municipal court may exempt a defendant for 1-8 whom proceedings are deferred under this article from the 1-9 requirement to pay a court cost or fee that is imposed by another 1-10 statute. 1-11 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-12 only to a defendant charged with an offense committed on or after 1-13 the effective date of this Act. For purposes of this section, an 1-14 offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any 1-15 element of the offense occurs before the effective date. 1-16 (b) A defendant charged with an offense committed before the 1-17 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the 1-18 offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect 1-19 for that purpose. 1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.