1-1 By: Thompson (Senate Sponsor - Henderson) H.B. No. 2673
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 1995;
1-3 May 2, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 16, 1995, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 16, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the imposition and collection of additional court costs
1-9 in certain counties.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 25.0016(c), Government Code, is amended
1-12 to read as follows:
1-13 (c) In determining the amount deposited in the judicial fund
1-14 under Section 51.702 for a county that collects fees and costs as
1-15 provided by that section, the comptroller shall credit $30
1-16 <one-half> of each fee <the fees> deposited in the judicial fund
1-17 under Section 51.701 by that county for cases assigned to a
1-18 statutory county court as fees deposited under Section 51.702.
1-19 SECTION 2. Sections 51.702(a) and (b), Government Code, are
1-20 amended to read as follows:
1-21 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (g), in addition to all
1-22 other fees authorized or required by other law, the clerk of a
1-23 statutory county court shall collect a $30 <$20> filing fee in each
1-24 civil case filed in the court to be used for court-related purposes
1-25 for the support of the judiciary.
1-26 (b) In addition to other court costs, a person shall pay $15
1-27 <$10> as a court cost on conviction of any criminal offense in a
1-28 statutory county court, including cases in which probation or
1-29 deferred adjudication is granted. A conviction that arises under
1-30 Chapter 173, Acts of the 47th Legislature, Regular Session, 1941
1-31 (Article 6687b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or a conviction
1-32 under the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article
1-33 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is included, except that a
1-34 conviction arising under any law that regulates pedestrians or the
1-35 parking of motor vehicles is not included.
1-36 SECTION 3. (a) This Act applies only to filing fees for
1-37 civil cases filed on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-38 (b) This Act applies only to a cost on conviction of an
1-39 offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. For
1-40 purposes of this section, an offense is committed before the
1-41 effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
1-42 before the effective date.
1-43 (c) A cost on conviction of an offense committed before the
1-44 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the
1-45 offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect
1-46 for that purpose.
1-47 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-48 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-49 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-50 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-51 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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