By: West  S.B. No. 740
         (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 2015; March 2, 2015,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
  April 23, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
  Nays 0; April 23, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the assessment of court costs and fees on conviction of
  multiple offenses or on conviction of multiple counts of the same
  offense.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 102, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, is amended by adding Article 102.073 to read as follows:
         Art. 102.073.  ASSESSMENT OF COURT COSTS AND FEES IN A SINGLE
  CRIMINAL ACTION. (a)  In a single criminal action in which a
  defendant is convicted of two or more offenses or of multiple counts
  of the same offense, the court may assess each court cost or fee
  only once against the defendant.
         (b)  In a criminal action described by Subsection (a), each
  court cost or fee the amount of which is determined according to the
  category of offense must be assessed using the highest category of
  offense that is possible based on the defendant's convictions.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to a
  court cost or fee imposed on or after the effective date of this
  Act, regardless of whether the offense for which the cost or fee was
  imposed was committed before, on, or after that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
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