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.