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1-30     Regular Session, 1995, is repealed.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.

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