AN ACT
1-1 relating to records of fines and fees collected in criminal cases.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Article 103.010, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-4 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-5 (c) Instead of a receipt book, each officer collecting fines
1-6 or fees in criminal cases for the county may maintain the
1-7 information listed in Subsections (b)(1)-(5) in a computer
1-8 database. The officer shall provide a receipt to each person
1-9 paying a fine or fee.
1-10 SECTION 2. Article 103.011, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 Art. 103.011. AUDIT. An officer [provided with a receipt
1-13 book under Article 103.010] shall deliver the [his] receipt book or
1-14 a copy of any receipt records contained in a computer database to
1-15 the county auditor at the end of each month's business or at the
1-16 end of each month shall allow the county auditor electronic access
1-17 to receipt records contained in the computer database. The county
1-18 auditor shall examine the receipt book or computer records and
1-19 determine whether the money collected has been properly disposed
1-20 of. If each receipt in a receipt [the] book has been used, the
1-21 county auditor shall keep the book. If any receipt in the book has
1-22 not been used, the auditor shall return the book to the officer.
1-23 The county auditor may keep a copy of computer generated receipt
1-24 records delivered to the county auditor. Any person may inspect a
2-1 receipt book or a computer generated receipt record kept by the
2-2 county auditor.
2-3 SECTION 3. 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,
2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1023 passed the Senate on
March 30, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1023 passed the House on
May 19, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, two present
not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor