1-1 By: Place (Senate Sponsor - Patterson) H.B. No. 2634 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997; 1-3 April 29, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Criminal Justice; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to administrative fees collected by community supervision 1-9 and corrections departments. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. (a) Chapter 76, Government Code, is amended by 1-12 adding Section 76.015 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 76.015. ADMINISTRATIVE FEE. (a) A department may 1-14 collect money from an individual as ordered by a court served by 1-15 the department regardless of whether the individual is under the 1-16 department's supervision. 1-17 (b) A department that collects money under this section 1-18 shall promptly transfer the money collected to the appropriate 1-19 county or state officer. 1-20 (c) A department may assess a reasonable administrative fee 1-21 of not less than $25 and not more than $40 per month on an 1-22 individual who participates in a department program or receives 1-23 department services and who is not paying a monthly fee under 1-24 Section 19, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure. 1-25 (b) In addition to the substantive changes made by this 1-26 section, this section conforms Chapter 76, Government Code, to 1-27 Section 1, Chapter 217, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular 1-28 Session, 1995. 1-29 (c) Section 1, Chapter 217, Acts of the 74th Legislature, 1-30 Regular Session, 1995, is repealed. 1-31 (d) To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails over 1-32 another Act of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, 1-33 relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted 1-34 codes. 1-35 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-36 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-41 * * * * *