By Whitmire                                           S.B. No. 1086
       74R4884 GWK-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the assessment and collection of certain criminal
    1-3  justice fees by certain officers and by community supervision and
    1-4  corrections departments.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Article 42.131, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-7  amended by adding Section 15 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 15.  ADMINISTRATIVE FEE.  (a)  A department may collect
    1-9  money from an individual as ordered by a court served by the
   1-10  department regardless of whether the individual is under the
   1-11  department's supervision.
   1-12        (b)  A department that collects money under this section
   1-13  shall promptly transfer the money collected to the appropriate
   1-14  county or state officer.
   1-15        (c)  A department may assess a reasonable administrative fee
   1-16  on an individual who participates in a department program or
   1-17  receives department services and who is not paying a monthly fee
   1-18  under Section 19, Article 42.12.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  Subchapter C, Chapter 102, Code of Criminal
   1-20  Procedure, is amended by adding Article 102.072 to read as follows:
   1-21        Art. 102.072.  ADMINISTRATIVE FEE.  An officer listed in
   1-22  Article 103.003 or a community supervision and corrections
   1-23  department may assess an administrative fee for each transaction
   1-24  made by the officer or department relating to the collection of
    2-1  fines, fees, restitution, or other costs imposed by a court.  The
    2-2  fee may not exceed $2 for each transaction.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  Article 103.003, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    2-4  amended to read as follows:
    2-5        Art. 103.003.  COLLECTION.  District and county attorneys,
    2-6  clerks of district and county courts, sheriffs, constables, <and>
    2-7  justices of the peace, and community supervision and corrections
    2-8  departments may collect money payable under this title and as
    2-9  otherwise provided by law.
   2-10        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-15  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-16  passage, and it is so enacted.