By West S.B. No. 1421
77R7205 ATP-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain court costs imposed on a person convicted of an
1-3 offense.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 102.075(m), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (m) In addition to the cost on conviction imposed by
1-8 Subsection (a), a person convicted of an offense described by
1-9 Subsection (a) shall pay 50 [25] cents on conviction of the
1-10 offense. The comptroller shall deposit money received under this
1-11 subsection to the credit of an account in the state treasury to be
1-12 used only for the establishment and operation of the Center for the
1-13 Study and Prevention of Juvenile Crime and Delinquency at Prairie
1-14 View A&M University. Subsection (h) does not apply to money
1-15 received under this subsection.
1-16 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only to
1-17 a court cost imposed on conviction of an offense committed on or
1-18 after the effective date of this Act. A court cost imposed on
1-19 conviction of an offense committed before the effective date of
1-20 this Act is governed by the law in effect when the offense was
1-21 committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
1-22 purpose. For the purposes of this section, an offense was
1-23 committed before the effective date of this Act if any element of
1-24 the offense occurred before that date.
2-1 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.