By Carona                                              S.B. No. 205
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the fee associated with the installation or the
 1-3     monitoring of a motor vehicle ignition interlock device required as
 1-4     a condition of bail.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Article 17.441(d), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
 1-7     amended to read as follows:
 1-8           (d)  The magistrate may designate an appropriate agency to
 1-9     verify the installation of the device and to monitor the device.
1-10     If the magistrate designates an agency under this subsection, the
1-11     defendant shall pay a fee of $10 to the designated agency at the
1-12     time the agency verifies the installation and each time that the
1-13     agency provides a monitoring service under this subsection.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.