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.