AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the fee paid by a defendant for the execution or
 1-2     processing of an arrest warrant or capias.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Article 102.011, Code of Criminal
 1-5     Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  A defendant convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor shall
 1-7     pay the following fees for services performed in the case by a
 1-8     peace officer:
 1-9                 (1)  $5 for issuing a written notice to appear in court
1-10     following the defendant's violation of a traffic law, municipal
1-11     ordinance, or penal law of this state, or for making an arrest
1-12     without a warrant;
1-13                 (2)  $50 [$35] for executing or processing an issued
1-14     arrest warrant or capias, with the fee imposed for the services of:
1-15                       (A)  the law enforcement agency that executed the
1-16     arrest warrant or capias, if the agency requests of the court, not
1-17     later than the 15th day after the date of the execution of the
1-18     arrest warrant or capias, the imposition of the fee on conviction;
1-19     or
1-20                       (B)  the law enforcement agency that processed
1-21     the arrest warrant or capias, if the executing law enforcement
1-22     agency failed to request the fee within the period required by
1-23     Paragraph (A) of this subdivision;
1-24                 (3)  $5 for summoning a witness;
 2-1                 (4)  $35 for serving a writ not otherwise listed in
 2-2     this article;
 2-3                 (5)  $10 for taking and approving a bond and, if
 2-4     necessary, returning the bond to the courthouse;
 2-5                 (6)  $5 for commitment or release;
 2-6                 (7)  $5 for summoning a jury, if a jury is summoned;
 2-7     and
 2-8                 (8)  $8 for each day's attendance of a prisoner in a
 2-9     habeas corpus case if the prisoner has been remanded to custody or
2-10     held to bail.
2-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
2-12     applies only to a fee for executing or processing an arrest warrant
2-13     or capias initially issued on or after that date. A fee for
2-14     executing or processing an arrest warrant or capias initially
2-15     issued before September 1, 1999, is covered by the law in effect
2-16     when the warrant or capias was issued, and the former law is
2-17     continued in effect for that purpose.
2-18           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 163 passed the Senate on
         March 15, 1999, by a viva-voce vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 163 passed the House on
         April 23, 1999, by a non-record vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor