1-1 By: Yarbrough (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 1018
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 1997;
1-3 April 8, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; April 15, 1997, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 15, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to court costs imposed on persons convicted of certain
1-9 offenses.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Article 102.014(c), Code of Criminal Procedure,
1-12 is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (c) A person convicted of an offense under Subtitle C, Title
1-14 7, Transportation Code [the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on
1-15 Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes)], when the
1-16 offense occurs within a school crossing zone as defined by Section
1-17 541.302 [20L] of that code [Act], shall pay as court costs $20 in
1-18 addition to other taxable court costs. A person convicted of an
1-19 offense under Section 545.066, Transportation Code [104, Uniform
1-20 Act Regulating Traffic on Highways (Article 6701d, Vernon's Texas
1-21 Civil Statutes)], shall pay as court costs $20 in addition to other
1-22 taxable court costs. A person convicted of an offense under
1-23 Section 25.093 or 25.094 [4.25], Education Code, shall pay as
1-24 taxable court costs $20 in addition to other taxable court costs.
1-25 The additional court costs under this subsection shall be collected
1-26 in the same manner that other fines and taxable court costs in the
1-27 case are collected.
1-28 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
1-29 only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
1-30 Act. For purposes of this subsection, an offense was committed
1-31 before the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense
1-32 occurred before that date.
1-33 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of this
1-34 Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
1-35 and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-36 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-37 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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