By Nelson                                              S.B. No. 604
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to imposing an administrative fee on an individual who
 1-3     performs community service as a condition of community supervision.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 19, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
 1-6     Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
 1-7           (h)  A judge who requires under Section 16 that a defendant
 1-8     work at a community service project for a county shall require the
 1-9     defendant to pay an administrative fee of $20.  Either the judge or
1-10     the community supervision and corrections department supervising
1-11     the defendant may collect the fee, and the fee shall be deposited
1-12     in the county treasury.  The commissioners court of the county may
1-13     use fees collected under this subsection to compensate the county
1-14     for costs associated with the supervision of defendants required to
1-15     perform community service projects.
1-16           SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-17     only to the imposition of a fee on a defendant convicted of an
1-18     offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.  For
1-19     purposes of this section, an offense is committed before the
1-20     effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
1-21     before the effective date.
1-22           (b)  A defendant convicted of an offense committed before the
1-23     effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the
1-24     offense was committed, and the former law is continued in effect
 2-1     for that purpose.
 2-2           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-3           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.