1-1     By:  West                                             S.B. No. 1421
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2001; March 13, 2001, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
 1-4     March 28, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 28, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to certain court costs imposed on a person convicted of an
 1-9     offense.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (m), Article 102.075, Code of Criminal
1-12     Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (m)  In addition to the cost on conviction imposed by
1-14     Subsection (a), a person convicted of an offense described by
1-15     Subsection (a)  shall pay 50 [25] cents on conviction of the
1-16     offense.  The comptroller shall deposit money received under this
1-17     subsection to the credit of an account in the state treasury to be
1-18     used only for the establishment and operation of the Center for the
1-19     Study and Prevention of Juvenile Crime and Delinquency at Prairie
1-20     View A&M University.  Subsection (h) does not apply to money
1-21     received under this subsection.
1-22           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-23     to a court cost imposed on conviction of an offense committed on or
1-24     after the effective date of this Act.  A court cost imposed on
1-25     conviction of an offense committed before the effective date of
1-26     this Act is governed by the law in effect when the offense was
1-27     committed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
1-28     purpose.  For the purposes of this section, an offense was
1-29     committed before the effective date of this Act if any element of
1-30     the offense occurred before that date.
1-31           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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