By: Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Campbell) H.B. No. 1448

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2013; May 6, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; May 16, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 1; May 16, 2013, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the use of money deposited to a justice court technology fund in certain counties.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Article 102.0173, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:

(f) A justice court may, subject to the approval of the commissioners court, use a fund designated by this article to assist a constable's office or other county department with a technological enhancement, or cost related to the enhancement, described by Subsection (d)(1) or (2) if the enhancement directly relates to the operation or efficiency of the justice court. This subsection applies only to a county that:

(1) has a population of 125,000 or more;

(2) is not adjacent to a county of two million or more;

(3) contains a portion of the Guadalupe River; and

(4) contains a portion of Interstate Highway 10.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.

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