Bill Text: TX HB2071 | 2017-2018 | 85th 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 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-08 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB2071 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB2071-Introduced.html

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85R3046 MAW-D
By: Cook H.B. No. 2071

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, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by adding Subsection (g-1) to read as follows:
(g-1) This subsection 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
maximum amount described by Subsection (g)(1) or (2), as
applicable, for legal services provided to the defendant. At any
time during a defendant's sentence of confinement or period of
community supervision, the judge, 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 subsection applies to pay any unpaid portion
of that amount if the judge determines that the defendant has the
financial resources to pay the additional portion. In making a
determination under this subsection, the judge 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, 2017.