By Swinford H.B. No. 2861
76R7601 JMC-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the cost on a criminal conviction for deposit in the
1-3 judicial and court personnel training fund.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 56.001(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) In addition to other court costs, a person shall pay
1-8 $1.75 [$1] as a court cost on conviction of any criminal offense,
1-9 including cases in which probation or deferred adjudication is
1-10 granted or in which final disposition in the case is deferred. A
1-11 conviction that arises under Chapter 521, Transportation Code, or a
1-12 conviction under Subtitle C, Title 7, Transportation Code, is
1-13 included, except that a conviction arising under any law that
1-14 regulates pedestrians or the parking of motor vehicles is not
1-15 included.
1-16 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-17 to a cost on conviction for an offense committed on or after the
1-18 effective date of this Act. A cost on conviction for an offense
1-19 committed before the effective date of this Act is covered by the
1-20 law in effect when the offense was committed, and the former law is
1-21 continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this
1-22 section, an offense was committed before the effective date of this
1-23 Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.
1-24 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-1 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.