By Nelson S.B. No. 604 76R4914 GWK-D 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.