By Oakley H.B. No. 2617
75R8628 T
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the assessment of court costs for certain criminal
1-3 offenses.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 415.082, Code of Criminal
1-6 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A person convicted of a criminal offense shall pay as
1-8 court costs $[3.50] 4.00 in addition to other taxable court costs.
1-9 These additional court costs shall be collected in the same manner
1-10 that other fines or court costs in the case are collected. Subject
1-11 to amounts retained under Section 415.083(d), the costs collected
1-12 under this subsection shall be deposited with the state comptroller
1-13 for the purposes as follows:
1-14 (1) $1 to the credit of the law enforcement officer
1-15 standards and education account for administrative expenses;
1-16 (2) $2 to the credit of the law enforcement officer
1-17 standards and education account for expenses related to the
1-18 continuing education of persons licensed; and
1-19 (3) [$.50] $1 to the credit of the Bill Blackwood Law
1-20 Enforcement Management Institute of Texas fund established under
1-21 Section 96.64(l), Education Code.
1-22 SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 96.64, Education Code, is
1-23 amended by adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows:
1-24 (e) The Board of Regents of the Texas State University
2-1 System may acquire, purchase, construct, improve, renovate,
2-2 enlarge, or equip property, buildings, structures, facilities,
2-3 roads, or related infrastructure for the Bill Blackwood Law
2-4 Enforcement Management Institute of Texas to be financed by the
2-5 issuance of bonds in accordance with this subchapter.
2-6 (f) The Board of Regents of Texas State University may
2-7 pledge irrevocably to the payment of those bonds a portion of the
2-8 proceeds of the Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute
2-9 of Texas fund. The amount of a pledge made under this subsection
2-10 may not be reduced or abrogated while the bonds for which the
2-11 pledge is made, or bonds issued to refund those bonds, are
2-12 outstanding.
2-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.