By Ellis                                               S.B. No. 320
         76R660 GWK-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the collection of fines and court costs from persons
 1-3     released from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on parole or
 1-4     mandatory supervision.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Article 103.003, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
 1-7     amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
 1-8           (c)  An employee of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
 1-9     may collect money payable in satisfaction of a condition of release
1-10     on parole or  mandatory supervision that requires the payment of a
1-11     fine or court cost.
1-12           SECTION 2.  Section 508.182(c), Government Code, is amended
1-13     to read as follows:
1-14           (c)  On the request of the releasee, a parole panel may allow
1-15     the releasee to defer one or more payments under this section.  The
1-16     releasee remains responsible for payment of the fee and, except as
1-17     otherwise provided by this subsection, shall pay the amount of the
1-18     deferred payment not later than the second anniversary of the date
1-19     the payment becomes due. A releasee who is required as a condition
1-20     of parole or mandatory supervision to pay a fine or court costs
1-21     shall pay the amount of the deferred payment of parole supervision
1-22     fees and administrative fees not later than the second anniversary
1-23     of the date of paying in full the required fine and court costs.
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,
 2-5     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-6     passage, and it is so enacted.