1-1 By: Ellis S.B. No. 1023
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1999; March 10, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 March 23, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4,
1-5 Nays 0; March 23, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to records of fines and fees collected in criminal cases.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Article 103.010, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-11 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-12 (c) Instead of a receipt book, each officer collecting fines
1-13 or fees in criminal cases for the county may maintain the
1-14 information listed in Subsections (b)(1)-(5) in a computer
1-15 database. The officer shall provide a receipt to each person
1-16 paying a fine or fee.
1-17 SECTION 2. Article 103.011, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-18 amended to read as follows:
1-19 Art. 103.011. AUDIT. An officer [provided with a receipt
1-20 book under Article 103.010] shall deliver the [his] receipt book or
1-21 a copy of any receipt records contained in a computer database to
1-22 the county auditor at the end of each month's business or at the
1-23 end of each month shall allow the county auditor electronic access
1-24 to receipt records contained in the computer database. The county
1-25 auditor shall examine the receipt book or computer records and
1-26 determine whether the money collected has been properly disposed
1-27 of. If each receipt in a receipt [the] book has been used, the
1-28 county auditor shall keep the book. If any receipt in the book has
1-29 not been used, the auditor shall return the book to the officer.
1-30 The county auditor may keep a copy of computer generated receipt
1-31 records delivered to the county auditor. Any person may inspect a
1-32 receipt book or a computer generated receipt record kept by the
1-33 county auditor.
1-34 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-39 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-40 passage, and it is so enacted.
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