By Goolsby H.B. No. 2325
76R8538 E
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to fees charged for traffic cases disposed of by driving
1-3 safety courses.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 543.106, Transportation Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 543.106. Fee for Request. (a) The court may require a
1-8 person requesting a driving safety course pursuant to Section
1-9 543.103 to pay a fee set by the court at an amount of not more than
1-10 $10, including any other fee authorized by statute or municipal
1-11 ordinance, to cover the cost of administering this subchapter.
1-12 (b) The court may require a person requesting a driving
1-13 safety course pursuant to Section 543.104 to pay a fee set by the
1-14 court at an amount of not more than $50, including any other fee
1-15 authorized by statute or municipal ordinance, to cover the cost of
1-16 administering this subchapter.
1-17 (c) A person who requests but does not take a course is not
1-18 entitled to a refund of the fee.
1-19 (d) [(c)] Fees collected by a municipal court shall be
1-20 deposited in the municipal treasury. Fees collected by another
1-21 court shall be deposited in the county treasury of the county in
1-22 which the court is located.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.