By Dear, Park, Kamel H.B. No. 330 74R1838 PEP-D 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)(1) A defendant for whom proceedings are deferred under 1-8 this article is exempt from the requirement to pay a court cost or 1-9 fee described by Subdivision (2) that is imposed by another statute 1-10 unless the defendant fails to present, no later than the date on 1-11 which the deferral period ends, satisfactory evidence of having 1-12 successfully completed a teen court program. 1-13 (2) This subsection applies to a court cost or fee 1-14 imposed by statute on a defendant considered to have been convicted 1-15 in a criminal case, regardless of whether: 1-16 (A) a sentence was imposed; 1-17 (B) the defendant received community supervision 1-18 after conviction or as a condition of deferred adjudication; or 1-19 (C) the court deferred final disposition of the 1-20 case. 1-21 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 1-22 only to a defendant charged with an offense committed on or after 1-23 the effective date of this Act. For purposes of this section, an 1-24 offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any 2-1 element of the offense occurs before the effective date. 2-2 (b) A defendant charged with an offense committed before the 2-3 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the 2-4 offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect 2-5 for that purpose. 2-6 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-7 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 2-12 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 2-13 Amend H.B. 330 as follows: 2-14 On page 1, line 7, after "(g)" strike the remainder of 2-15 Section 1 and substitute "A Justice or Municipal Court may exempt a 2-16 defendant for whom proceedings are deferred under this article from 2-17 the requirement to pay a court cost or fee that is imposed by 2-18 another statute." 2-19 Goodman