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.
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