AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the fee associated with the installation or the
 1-2     monitoring of a motor vehicle ignition interlock device required as
 1-3     a condition of bail.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Article 17.441, Code of Criminal
 1-6     Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (d)  The magistrate may designate an appropriate agency to
 1-8     verify the installation of the device and to monitor the device.
 1-9     If the magistrate designates an agency under this subsection, in
1-10     each month during which the agency verifies the installation of the
1-11     device or provides a monitoring service the defendant shall pay a
1-12     fee to the designated agency in the amount set by the magistrate.
1-13     The defendant shall pay the initial fee at the time the agency
1-14     verifies the installation of the device.  In each subsequent month
1-15     during which the defendant is required to pay a fee the defendant
1-16     shall pay the fee on the first occasion in that month that the
1-17     agency provides a monitoring service.  The magistrate shall set the
1-18     fee in an amount not to exceed $10 as determined by the county
1-19     auditor, or by the commissioners court of the county if the county
1-20     does not have a county auditor, to be sufficient to cover the cost
1-21     incurred by the designated agency in conducting the verification or
1-22     providing the monitoring service, as applicable in that county.
1-23           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     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. 205 passed the Senate on
         March 30, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 205 passed the House on
         May 19, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor