By: Carona S.B. No. 205 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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.