1-1  By:  Dear, Park, Kamel (Senate Sponsor - Sibley)       H.B. No. 330
    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 payment of certain fees and court costs by a person
    1-9  who successfully completes a teen court program.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Article 45.55, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-12  amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
   1-13        (g)  A justice or municipal court may exempt a defendant for
   1-14  whom proceedings are deferred under this article from the
   1-15  requirement to pay a court cost or fee that is imposed by another
   1-16  statute.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-18  only to a defendant charged with an offense committed on or after
   1-19  the effective date of this Act.  For purposes of this section, an
   1-20  offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any
   1-21  element of the offense occurs before the effective date.
   1-22        (b)  A defendant charged with an offense committed before the
   1-23  effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the
   1-24  offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect
   1-25  for that purpose.
   1-26        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-27        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-28  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-29  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-30  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-31  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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