By Talton H.B. No. 2423
74R4884 GWK-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the assessment and collection of certain criminal
1-3 justice fees by certain officers and by community supervision and
1-4 corrections departments.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Article 42.131, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-7 amended by adding Section 15 to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 15. ADMINISTRATIVE FEE. (a) A department may collect
1-9 money from an individual as ordered by a court served by the
1-10 department regardless of whether the individual is under the
1-11 department's supervision.
1-12 (b) A department that collects money under this section
1-13 shall promptly transfer the money collected to the appropriate
1-14 county or state officer.
1-15 (c) A department may assess a reasonable administrative fee
1-16 on an individual who participates in a department program or
1-17 receives department services and who is not paying a monthly fee
1-18 under Section 19, Article 42.12.
1-19 SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 102, Code of Criminal
1-20 Procedure, is amended by adding Article 102.072 to read as follows:
1-21 Art. 102.072. ADMINISTRATIVE FEE. An officer listed in
1-22 Article 103.003 or a community supervision and corrections
1-23 department may assess an administrative fee for each transaction
1-24 made by the officer or department relating to the collection of
2-1 fines, fees, restitution, or other costs imposed by a court. The
2-2 fee may not exceed $2 for each transaction.
2-3 SECTION 3. Article 103.003, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
2-4 amended to read as follows:
2-5 Art. 103.003. COLLECTION. District and county attorneys,
2-6 clerks of district and county courts, sheriffs, constables, <and>
2-7 justices of the peace, and community supervision and corrections
2-8 departments may collect money payable under this title and as
2-9 otherwise provided by law.
2-10 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.