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.
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