By Wentworth S.B. No. 835 74R4724 GWK-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the imposition of a cost on conviction of a felony. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 102, Code of Criminal 1-5 Procedure, is amended by adding Article 102.020 to read as follows: 1-6 Art. 102.020. COSTS FOR JUDICIAL EDUCATION. (a) A person 1-7 convicted of a felony shall pay as a court cost $5 in addition to 1-8 other court costs. 1-9 (b) In this article, a person is considered to have been 1-10 convicted in a case if: 1-11 (1) a sentence is imposed; or 1-12 (2) the defendant receives community supervision, 1-13 including deferred adjudication community supervision. 1-14 (c) An officer collecting a cost under this article shall 1-15 collect the cost in the same manner as other costs are collected in 1-16 the case. 1-17 (d) A cost collected under this article shall be deposited 1-18 in the county treasury in a special account to be administered by 1-19 the court imposing the cost. Expenditures from this special 1-20 account shall be at the sole discretion of the judge and may be 1-21 used only to acquire or maintain a research library for the court 1-22 or pay travel and related expenses necessary for the judge or court 1-23 staff to attend a judicial or legal professional activity sponsored 1-24 by an organization accredited by the Supreme Court of Texas as a 2-1 provider of continuing judicial or legal education. 2-2 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies 2-3 only to a cost on conviction of an offense committed on or after 2-4 the effective date of this Act. For purposes of this section, an 2-5 offense is committed before the effective date of this Act if any 2-6 element of the offense occurs before the effective date. 2-7 (b) A cost on conviction of an offense committed before the 2-8 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the 2-9 offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect 2-10 for that purpose. 2-11 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 2-12 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.