1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to court costs imposed on persons convicted of certain
1-3 offenses.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 102.014(c), Code of Criminal Procedure,
1-6 is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) A person convicted of an offense under Subtitle C, Title
1-8 7, Transportation Code [the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
1-9 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)], when the
1-10 offense occurs within a school crossing zone as defined by Section
1-11 541.302 [20L] of that code [Act], shall pay as court costs $20 in
1-12 addition to other taxable court costs. A person convicted of an
1-13 offense under Section 545.066, Transportation Code [104, Uniform
1-14 Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas
1-15 Civil Statutes)], shall pay as court costs $20 in addition to other
1-16 taxable court costs. A person convicted of an offense under
1-17 Section 25.093 or 25.094 [4.25], Education Code, shall pay as
1-18 taxable court costs $20 in addition to other taxable court costs.
1-19 The additional court costs under this subsection shall be collected
1-20 in the same manner that other fines and taxable court costs in the
1-21 case are collected.
1-22 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
1-23 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-24 Act. For purposes of this subsection, an offense was committed
2-1 before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
2-2 occurred before that date.
2-3 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
2-4 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
2-5 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-6 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-7 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1018 was passed by the House on April
3, 1997, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1018 was passed by the Senate on
April 24, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor