1-1     By:  Pickett, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Shapleigh)     H.B. No. 1063
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
 1-3     March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Criminal Justice; April 30, 1999, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 30, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the imposition of a graffiti eradication fee on certain
 1-9     persons in juvenile court.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Chapter 54, Family Code, is amended by adding
1-12     Section 54.0461 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 54.0461.  PAYMENT OF GRAFFITI ERADICATION FEES.  (a)  If
1-14     a child is adjudicated as having engaged in delinquent conduct that
1-15     violates Section 28.08, Penal Code, the juvenile court shall order
1-16     the child, parent, or other person responsible for the child's
1-17     support to pay to the court a $5 graffiti eradication fee as a cost
1-18     of court.
1-19           (b)  The court shall deposit fees received under this section
1-20     to the credit of the county graffiti eradication fund provided for
1-21     under Article 102.0171, Code of Criminal Procedure.
1-22           (c)  If the court finds that a child, parent, or other person
1-23     responsible for the child's support is unable to pay the graffiti
1-24     eradication fee required under Subsection (a), the court shall
1-25     enter into the child's case records a statement of that finding.
1-26     The court may waive a fee under this section only if the court
1-27     makes the finding under this subsection.
1-28           SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-29     only to conduct that occurs on or after the effective date of this
1-30     Act.  Conduct violating a penal law of this state occurs on or
1-31     after the effective date of this Act if every element of the
1-32     violation occurs on or after that date.
1-33           (b)  Conduct that occurs before the effective date of this
1-34     Act is covered by the law in effect at the time the conduct
1-35     occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for that
1-36     purpose.
1-37           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-38           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-39     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-40     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-41     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-42     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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