88R406 MEW-D
 
  By: Whitmire S.B. No. 1151
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority of corporations to act as sureties on bail
  bonds.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 17.06, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Art. 17.06.  CORPORATION AS SURETY.  (a) In [Wherever in]
  this chapter [Chapter], if a [any] person is required or authorized
  to give or execute a [any] bail bond, the [such] bail bond may be
  given or executed by the [such] principal and a [any] corporation
  authorized by law to act as surety, subject to all applicable [the]
  provisions of this chapter [Chapter] regulating and governing the
  giving of bail bonds by personal surety [insofar as the same is
  applicable].
         (b)  A corporation may not act as a surety on a bail bond for
  a defendant unless the corporation requires the defendant before
  release to pay a fee to the corporation equal to not less than 10
  percent of the total amount of the bail set for the defendant.
         SECTION 2.  Article 17.06, Code of Criminal Procedure, as
  amended by this Act, applies only to a bail bond executed on or
  after the effective date of this Act. A bail bond executed before
  the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on
  the date the bail bond was executed, and the former law is continued
  in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.