Amend HB 3637 by adding the following appropriately numbered
SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the
bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Article 102.0178(a), Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
(a) In addition to other costs on conviction imposed by this
chapter, a person shall pay $60 [$50] as a court cost on conviction
of an offense punishable as a Class B misdemeanor or any higher
category of offense under:
(1) Chapter 49, Penal Code; or
(2) Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code.
SECTION ____. The change in law made by Article
102.0178(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by this Act,
applies only to a cost imposed for an offense committed on or after
the effective date of this Act. A cost imposed for an offense
committed before the effective date of this Act is covered by the
law in effect when the offense was committed, and the former law is
continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this section,
an offense was committed before the effective date of this Act if
any element of the offense was committed before that date.