By Nelson S.B. No. 155
74R891 JD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the court costs required to be paid by persons
1-3 convicted of certain intoxication offenses.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Articles 102.016(a) and (h), Code of Criminal
1-6 Procedure, are amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A person convicted of an offense under Chapter 49, Penal
1-8 Code, other than an offense punishable as a Class C misdemeanor, or
1-9 of an offense under the Texas Commercial Driver's License Act
1-10 (Article 6687b-2, Revised Statutes), shall pay as court costs $125
1-11 <$30>, in addition to other court costs.
1-12 (h) The custodian of a municipal or county treasury in a
1-13 county that maintains a certified breath alcohol testing program
1-14 but does not use the services of a certified technical supervisor
1-15 employed by the department shall remit $31.25 <$7.50> of each cost
1-16 collected under this article to the comptroller on or before the
1-17 last day of the month of each calendar quarter, and retain $93.75
1-18 <$22.50> of the cost to defray the costs of maintaining and
1-19 supporting a certified alcohol breath testing program.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. The
1-21 change in law made by this Act applies only to an offense committed
1-22 on or after that date. An offense committed before the effective
1-23 date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense
1-24 was committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
2-1 purpose. For purposes of this section, an offense was committed
2-2 before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
2-3 occurred before that date.
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.