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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