Bill Text: TX HB1448 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the use of money deposited to a justice court technology fund in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB1448 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1448-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1448 |
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relating to the use of money deposited to a justice court technology | ||
fund in certain counties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 102.0173, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: | ||
(f) A justice court may, subject to the approval of the | ||
commissioners court, use a fund designated by this article to | ||
assist a constable's office or other county department with a | ||
technological enhancement, or cost related to the enhancement, | ||
described by Subsection (d)(1) or (2) if the enhancement directly | ||
relates to the operation or efficiency of the justice court. This | ||
subsection applies only to a county that: | ||
(1) has a population of 125,000 or more; | ||
(2) is not adjacent to a county of two million or more; | ||
(3) contains a portion of the Guadalupe River; and | ||
(4) contains a portion of Interstate Highway 10. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1448 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1448 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
17, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |