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. 1-32 * * * * *