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          A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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          AN ACT
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        relating to prohibited employment by a bail bond surety. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Article 17.10, Code of Criminal Procedure, is  | 
      
      
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        amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (d)  A surety, including an attorney acting as a surety, may  | 
      
      
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        not employ or contract with a person to act as an agent for the  | 
      
      
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        surety if the person has been finally convicted of: | 
      
      
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                     (1)  a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; or | 
      
      
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                     (2)  a felony. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |