Bill Text: TX HB1663 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a defendant's payment of costs associated with a court-appointed counsel.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-27 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB1663 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1663-Comm_Sub.html
By: Cook, Villalba, Fallon | H.B. No. 1663 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Schwertner) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 2015; | ||
May 12, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal | ||
Justice; May 21, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 21, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE VOTE | ||
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WhitmireX | ||
HuffmanX | ||
BurtonX | ||
CreightonX | ||
HinojosaX | ||
MenéndezX | ||
PerryX | ||
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relating to a defendant's payment of costs associated with a | ||
court-appointed counsel. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 26.05(g), Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(g)(1) If the court determines that a defendant has | ||
financial resources that enable the defendant [ |
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part or in whole the costs of the legal services provided, including | ||
any expenses and costs, the court shall order the defendant to pay | ||
during the pendency of the charges or, if convicted, as court costs | ||
the amount that it finds the defendant is able to pay. | ||
(2) This subdivision applies only to a defendant who | ||
at the time of sentencing to confinement or placement on community | ||
supervision, including deferred adjudication community | ||
supervision, did not have the financial resources to pay the entire | ||
cost of legal services provided to the defendant. At any time during | ||
a defendant's sentence of confinement or period of community | ||
supervision, the court, after providing written notice to the | ||
defendant and an opportunity for the defendant to present | ||
information relevant to the defendant's ability to pay, may order a | ||
defendant to whom this subdivision applies to pay the unpaid | ||
portion of the costs of legal services provided to the defendant, if | ||
the court determines that the defendant has the financial resources | ||
to pay the costs. | ||
(3) In making a determination under Subdivision (2), | ||
the court may only consider the information a court or courts' | ||
designee is authorized to consider in making an indigency | ||
determination under Article 26.04(m). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
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