By Keel                                                H.B. No. 149
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to fees assessed on the filing of certain applications or
 1-3     petitions for a writ of habeas corpus.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 11, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
 1-6     amended by adding Article 11.051 to read as follows:
 1-7           Art. 11.051.  FILING FEE PROHIBITED.  Notwithstanding any
 1-8     other law, a clerk of a court may not require a filing fee from an
 1-9     individual who files an application or petition for a writ of
1-10     habeas corpus.
1-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17     passage, and it is so enacted.