1-1 By: Carona S.B. No. 205 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 20, 1999; January 28, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 March 22, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 22, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 205 By: Duncan 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the fee associated with the installation or the 1-11 monitoring of a motor vehicle ignition interlock device required as 1-12 a condition of bail. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Article 17.441, Code of Criminal 1-15 Procedure, is amended to read as follows: 1-16 (d) The magistrate may designate an appropriate agency to 1-17 verify the installation of the device and to monitor the device. 1-18 If the magistrate designates an agency under this subsection, in 1-19 each month during which the agency verifies the installation of the 1-20 device or provides a monitoring service the defendant shall pay a 1-21 fee to the designated agency in the amount set by the magistrate. 1-22 The defendant shall pay the initial fee at the time the agency 1-23 verifies the installation of the device. In each subsequent month 1-24 during which the defendant is required to pay a fee the defendant 1-25 shall pay the fee on the first occasion in that month that the 1-26 agency provides a monitoring service. The magistrate shall set the 1-27 fee in an amount not to exceed $10 as determined by the county 1-28 auditor, or by the commissioners court of the county if the county 1-29 does not have a county auditor, to be sufficient to cover the cost 1-30 incurred by the designated agency in conducting the verification or 1-31 providing the monitoring service, as applicable in that county. 1-32 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-33 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-38 * * * * *