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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to administrative fees collected by community supervision

 1-3     and corrections departments.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.   (a)  Chapter 76, Government Code, is amended by

 1-6     adding Section 76.015 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 76.015.  ADMINISTRATIVE FEE.  (a) A department may

 1-8     collect money from an individual as ordered by a court served by

 1-9     the department regardless of whether the individual is under the

1-10     department's supervision.

1-11           (b)  A department that collects money under this section

1-12     shall promptly transfer the money collected to the appropriate

1-13     county or state officer.

1-14           (c)  A department may assess a reasonable administrative fee

1-15     on an individual who participates in a department program or

1-16     receives department services and who is not paying a monthly fee

1-17     under Section 19, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure.

1-18           (b)  In addition to the substantive changes made by this

1-19     section, this section conforms Chapter 76, Government Code, to

1-20     Section 1, Chapter 217, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular

1-21     Session, 1995.

1-22           (c)  Section 1, Chapter 217, Acts of the 74th Legislature,

1-23     Regular Session, 1995, is repealed.

1-24           (d)  To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over

 2-1     another Act of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997,

 2-2     relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted

 2-3     codes.

 2-4           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-5           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.