By Reyna H.B. No. 566 74R2281 PEP-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the payment of court costs for civil suits filed by 1-3 certain persons confined in county jail. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 13, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 13.004 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 13.004. PAYMENT OF FEES AND COSTS BY PERSON CONFINED IN 1-8 COUNTY JAIL. (a) If a person confined in county jail files in 1-9 court an affidavit of inability to pay under Rule 145, Texas Rules 1-10 of Civil Procedure, the judge shall order the sheriff to deduct 1-11 from the person's commissary account any amount that would 1-12 otherwise be available for use by the person and to pay that amount 1-13 to the court until actual court costs and filing fees incurred in 1-14 relation to the proceeding are paid in full. 1-15 (b) To the extent of any conflict with the Texas Rules of 1-16 Civil Procedure, this section controls. Notwithstanding Section 1-17 22.004, Government Code, this section may not be modified or 1-18 repealed by a rule adopted by the supreme court. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.