Bill Text: TX HB1663 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to a defendant's payment of costs associated with a court-appointed counsel.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-27 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB1663 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1663-Introduced.html

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84R2034 MAW-D
By: Cook H.B. No. 1663

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) 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. If at the
time of sentencing the court determines that the defendant is
unable to pay the total cost of the services provided, the court
shall order the defendant to pay the unpaid portion as money becomes
available to the defendant during the defendant's sentence,
including money deposited in the defendant's trust account
administered by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice under
Section 501.014, Government Code.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a sentencing proceeding that commences on or after the effective
date of this Act. A sentencing proceeding that commences before the
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
date the proceeding commenced, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.