By Shapiro                                       S.B. No. 430

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to certain costs associated with the installation of a

 1-3     motor vehicle ignition interlock device required as a condition of

 1-4     bail.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Article 17.441(d), Code of Criminal Procedure, is

 1-7     amended to read as follows:

 1-8           (d)  The magistrate may designate an appropriate agency to

 1-9     verify the installation of the device and to monitor the device.

1-10     If the magistrate designates an agency under this subsection, the

1-11     defendant shall pay a fee of $10 to the designated agency at the

1-12     time the agency verifies the installation and each time that the

1-13     agency provides a monitoring service under this subsection.

1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.