74R9926 MLR-D
By Thompson H.B. No. 2673
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the imposition and collection of additional court costs
1-3 in certain counties.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 25.0016(c), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (c) In determining the amount deposited in the judicial fund
1-8 under Section 51.702 for a county that collects fees and costs as
1-9 provided by that section, the comptroller shall credit $30
1-10 <one-half> of each fee <the fees> deposited in the judicial fund
1-11 under Section 51.701 by that county for cases assigned to a
1-12 statutory county court as fees deposited under Section 51.702.
1-13 SECTION 2. Sections 51.702(a) and (b), Government Code, are
1-14 amended to read as follows:
1-15 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (g), in addition to all
1-16 other fees authorized or required by other law, the clerk of a
1-17 statutory county court shall collect a $30 <$20> filing fee in each
1-18 civil case filed in the court to be used for court-related purposes
1-19 for the support of the judiciary.
1-20 (b) In addition to other court costs, a person shall pay $15
1-21 <$10> as a court cost on conviction of any criminal offense in a
1-22 statutory county court, including cases in which probation or
1-23 deferred adjudication is granted. A conviction that arises under
2-1 Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941
2-2 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or a conviction
2-3 under the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article
2-4 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is included, except that a
2-5 conviction arising under any law that regulates pedestrians or the
2-6 parking of motor vehicles is not included.
2-7 SECTION 3. (a) This Act applies only to filing fees for
2-8 civil cases filed on or after the effective date of this Act.
2-9 (b) This Act applies only to a cost on conviction of an
2-10 offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. For
2-11 purposes of this section, an offense is committed before the
2-12 effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
2-13 before the effective date.
2-14 (c) A cost on conviction of an offense committed before the
2-15 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the
2-16 offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect
2-17 for that purpose.
2-18 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.