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.)
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  COMMITTEE VOTE
 
 
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         HuffmanX
         BurtonX
         CreightonX
         HinojosaX
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  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 [him] to offset in
  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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