1-1  By:  Nelson                                            S.B. No. 187
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 11, 1995; January 18, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
    1-4  March 21, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
    1-5  Nays 0; March 21, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to fees on conviction to reimburse the state and political
    1-9  subdivisions for overtime pay for peace officers who testify at
   1-10  trial.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Article 102.011, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-13  amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
   1-14        (i)  In addition to fees provided by Subsections (a) through
   1-15  (g) of this article, a defendant required to pay fees under this
   1-16  article shall also pay the costs of overtime paid to a peace
   1-17  officer for time spent testifying in the trial of the case or for
   1-18  traveling to or from testifying in the trial of the case.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-20  only to a fee on conviction for an offense committed on or after
   1-21  the effective date of this Act.  For purposes of this section, an
   1-22  offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any
   1-23  element of the offense occurs before the effective date.
   1-24        (b)  A fee on conviction for an offense committed before the
   1-25  effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the
   1-26  offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect
   1-27  for this purpose.
   1-28        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-29        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-30  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-31  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-32  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-33  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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