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

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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-Comm_Sub.html

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84R25604 MAW-D
By: Cook H.B. No. 1663
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1663:
By: Herrero C.S.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)(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 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.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.