By Hartnett                                           H.B. No. 3173
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the deposit of recognizances, bail bonds, fines,
 1-3     forfeitures, judgments, jury fees, and other obligations recovered
 1-4     in the name of the state by a justice of the peace.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Article 103.004, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
 1-7     amended to read as follows:
 1-8           Art. 103.004.  DISPOSITION OF COLLECTED MONEY.  (a)  An
 1-9     officer who collects recognizances, bail bonds, fines, forfeitures,
1-10     judgments, jury fees, and other obligations recovered in the name
1-11     of the state under any provision of this title shall [immediately
1-12     pay the money to the county treasurer of the county for which the
1-13     money was collected] deposit the funds with the county treasurer on
1-14     or before the next regular business day after the date on which the
1-15     funds are received. If this deadline is not met, the officer must
1-16     deposit the funds, without exception, on or before the seventh
1-17     business day after the day on which the funds are received.
1-18     However, in a county with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants, the
1-19     commissioners court may extend the period during which funds must
1-20     be deposited with the county treasurer, but the period may not
1-21     exceed 30 days after the date the funds are received.
1-22           (b)  It shall not be grounds for removal from office if an
1-23     officer who receives funds under subsection (a) temporarily
1-24     deposits the funds in a holding account established at a
 2-1     subdepository within the county for that purpose.
 2-2           (c)  The custodian of the county treasury shall deposit money
 2-3     received from fees imposed under Article 102.012 of this code in
 2-4     the special fund of the county treasury for the community
 2-5     supervision and corrections department serving the county.
 2-6           SECTION 2.  This Act applies to recognizances, bail bonds,
 2-7     fines, forfeitures, judgments, jury fees, and other obligations
 2-8     collected on or after September 1, 1999. All  such funds recovered
 2-9     before September 1, 1999, are governed by the law in effect on the
2-10     date the funds are collected.
2-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.