By Park H.B. No. 1553 74R4139 DD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the fees and court costs assessed by a court for 1-3 participation in a teen court program. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 54.032(e), Family Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (e) The court may require a child who requests a teen court 1-8 program to pay a fee not to exceed $10 that is set by the court to 1-9 cover the costs of administering this section. The court may not 1-10 require a child who requests a teen court program under this 1-11 section to pay any other fee or court cost. The court shall 1-12 deposit the fee in the county treasury of the county in which the 1-13 court is located. A child who requests a teen court program and 1-14 does not complete the program is not entitled to a refund of the 1-15 fee. 1-16 SECTION 2. Article 45.55(e), Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-17 amended to read as follows: 1-18 (e) The justice or municipal court may require a person who 1-19 requests a teen court program to pay a fee not to exceed $10 that 1-20 is set by the court to cover the costs of administering this 1-21 article. The court may not require a person who requests a teen 1-22 court program under this article to pay any other fee or court 1-23 cost. Fees collected by a municipal court shall be deposited in the 1-24 municipal treasury. Fees collected by a justice court shall be 2-1 deposited in the county treasury of the county in which the court 2-2 is located. A person who requests a teen court program and fails 2-3 to complete the program is not entitled to a refund of the fee. 2-4 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.