78R12572 GWK-D
By: Rangel, Canales, Garza H.B. No. 3376
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the payment of court costs in certain asset forfeiture
cases.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 59.05(f), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended to read as follows:
(f)(1) On forfeiture to the state of an amount greater than
$2,500, the clerk of the court in which the forfeiture proceeding
was held is entitled to court costs in that proceeding as in other
civil proceedings unless the forfeiture violates federal
requirements for multijurisdictional task force cases authorized
under Chapter 362, Local Government Code.
(2) Regardless of the amount subject to forfeiture, on
the filing of a forfeiture proceeding described by this
subdivision, the clerk of the court is entitled to court costs as in
other civil proceedings. This subdivision applies only to a
forfeiture proceeding:
(A) arising from a seizure at a federal
checkpoint; and
(B) filed in a county adjacent to the county in
which the seizure occurred, with both counties being in the same
judicial district.
(3) The procedure for collecting [the] costs under
Subdivision (1) is the procedure established under Subsections (a)
and (c), Article 59.06.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.