1-1 By: Ellis S.B. No. 320 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 29, 1999; February 2, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; 1-4 February 24, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 1-5 3, Nays 2; February 24, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the collection of fines and court costs from persons 1-9 released from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on parole or 1-10 mandatory supervision. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Article 103.003, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-13 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-14 (c) An employee of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 1-15 may collect money payable in satisfaction of a condition of release 1-16 on parole or mandatory supervision that requires the payment of a 1-17 fine or court cost. 1-18 SECTION 2. Subsection (c), Section 508.182, Government Code, 1-19 is amended to read as follows: 1-20 (c) On the request of the releasee, a parole panel may allow 1-21 the releasee to defer one or more payments under this section. The 1-22 releasee remains responsible for payment of the fee and, except as 1-23 otherwise provided by this subsection, shall pay the amount of the 1-24 deferred payment not later than the second anniversary of the date 1-25 the payment becomes due. A releasee who is required as a condition 1-26 of parole or mandatory supervision to pay a fine or court costs 1-27 shall pay the amount of the deferred payment of parole supervision 1-28 fees and administrative fees not later than the second anniversary 1-29 of the date of paying in full the required fine and court costs. 1-30 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-35 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-36 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-37 * * * * *