By: West  S.B. No. 391
         (In the Senate - Filed February 5, 2013; February 13, 2013,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
  February 20, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 20, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to a defendant's obligation to pay a fine or court cost
  after the expiration of a period of community supervision.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 11, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as
  follows:
         (b-1)  A defendant's obligation to pay a fine or court cost
  as ordered by a judge exists independently of any requirement to pay
  the fine or court cost as a condition of the defendant's community
  supervision.  A defendant remains obligated to pay any unpaid fine
  or court cost after the expiration of the defendant's period of
  community supervision.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
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