By: Darby (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 1213
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 2021;
  May 4, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Jurisprudence; May 14, 2021, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to court reporter costs incurred in a hearing or
  proceeding for the involuntary detention of a person with mental
  illness.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 571.018(c), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (c)  Costs under this section include:
               (1)  attorney's fees;
               (2)  physician examination fees;
               (3)  compensation for court-appointed personnel listed
  under Section 571.017;
               (4)  expenses of transportation to a mental health
  facility or to a federal agency not to exceed $50 if transporting
  within the same county and not to exceed the reasonable cost of
  transportation if transporting between counties;
               (5)  costs and salary supplements authorized under
  Sections 574.031(i) and (j); [and]
               (6)  prosecutor's fees authorized under Section
  574.031(k); and
               (7)  court reporter costs.
         SECTION 2.  Section 571.018(c), Health and Safety Code, as
  amended by this Act, applies only to the court reporter costs
  incurred on or after the effective date of this Act. Court reporter
  costs incurred before the effective date of this Act are governed by
  the law in effect when the hearing was initiated, and the former law
  is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
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