82R3427 YDB-F
 
  By: Thompson H.B. No. 904
 
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to court costs imposed on conviction and deposited to the
 
  municipal court building security fund.
         
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         
         SECTION 1.  Article 102.017(b), Code of Criminal Procedure,
 
  is amended to read as follows:
         
         (b)  A defendant convicted of a misdemeanor offense in a
 
  county court, county court at law, or district court shall pay a $3
 
  security fee as a cost of court. A defendant convicted of a
 
  misdemeanor offense in a justice court shall pay a $4 security fee
 
  as a cost of court. The governing body of a municipality by
 
  ordinance may create a municipal court building security fund and
 
  may require a defendant convicted of a misdemeanor offense in a
 
  municipal court to pay a $4 [$3] security fee as a cost of court.
         
         SECTION 2.  Section 102.121, Government Code, is amended to
 
  read as follows:
         
         Sec. 102.121.  ADDITIONAL COURT COSTS ON CONVICTION IN
 
  MUNICIPAL COURT: CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.  The clerk of a
 
  municipal court shall collect fees and costs on conviction of a
 
  defendant as follows:
               
               (1)  a jury fee (Art. 102.004, Code of Criminal
 
  Procedure) . . . $3;
               
               (2)  a fee for withdrawing request for jury less than 24
 
  hours before time of trial (Art. 102.004, Code of Criminal
 
  Procedure) . . . $3;
               
               (3)  a jury fee for two or more defendants tried jointly
 
  (Art. 102.004, Code of Criminal Procedure) . . . one jury fee of
 
  $3;
               
               (4)  a security fee on a misdemeanor offense
 
  (Art. 102.017, Code of Criminal Procedure) . . . $4 [$3];
               
               (5)  a fee for technology fund on a misdemeanor offense
 
  (Art. 102.0172, Code of Criminal Procedure) . . . not to exceed $4;
               
               (6)  a juvenile case manager fee (Art. 102.0174, Code
 
  of Criminal Procedure) . . . not to exceed $5; and
               
               (7)  a civil justice fee (Art. 102.022, Code of
 
  Criminal Procedure) . . . $0.10.
         
         SECTION 3.  (a) Section 51.607, Government Code, does not
 
  apply to the imposition or change in the amount of a court cost
 
  assessed under Article 102.017(b), Code of Criminal Procedure, as
 
  amended by this Act, or under Section 102.121, Government Code, as
 
  amended by this Act.
         
         (b)  The change in law made by this Act applies only to court
 
  costs imposed on conviction in a municipal court of an offense
 
  committed on or after the effective date of an ordinance of the
 
  governing body of the municipality that requires a defendant
 
  convicted of the offense to pay the cost. Court costs imposed on
 
  conviction of an offense committed before that date are governed by
 
  the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the
 
  former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
 
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
 
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
 
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
 
  Act takes effect September 1, 2011.