By Hunter of Taylor H.B. No. 2509
74R6599 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to allowing municipalities and counties to enter into
1-3 contracts for the collection of certain court costs and fines.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 103.0031, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Art. 103.0031. COLLECTION CONTRACTS. The commissioners
1-8 court of a county or the governing body of a municipality may enter
1-9 into a contract with a public or private vendor to:
1-10 (1) contact persons with outstanding court cases; and
1-11 (2) coordinate payments and provide for the <provision
1-12 of> collection of <services for> fines, fees, restitution, and
1-13 other costs ordered to be paid by a court serving the county or
1-14 municipality.
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.