Bill Amendment: TX HB20 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature

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Bill Title: Relating to rules for fixing the amount of bail, to the release of certain defendants on a bail bond or personal bond, to related duties of certain officers taking bail bonds and of a magistrate in a criminal case, to charitable bail organizations, and to the reporting of information pertaining to bail bonds.

Status: 2021-05-31 - Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported [HB20 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB20-House_Amendment_H_2_6-Murr.html

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Amend CSHB 20 (house committee report) as follows:

(1)  On page 13, between lines 14 and 15, insert the following:

(g)  The Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System shall promulgate a form for use by a magistrate in providing notice to the defendant under Subsection (e). The form must include the relevant statutory language from the provisions of this chapter under which a condition of release on bond may be imposed on a defendant.

(2)  On page 14, line 5, between "8." and "As", insert "(a)".

(3)  On page 14, line 7, between "shall" and "develop", insert the following:

(1)  promulgate the form required by Article 17.50(g), Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by this Act; and

(2)

(4)  On page 14, lines 9 and 10, strike "If those items" and substitute the following:

(b)  If the items described by Subsection (a) of this section