Bill Text: TX HB2499 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the electronic filing of bail bonds.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB2499 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2499-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2499 |
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relating to the electronic filing of bail bonds. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 17, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Article 17.026 to read as follows: | ||
Art. 17.026. ELECTRONIC FILING OF BAIL BOND. In any manner | ||
permitted by the county in which the bond is written, a bail bond | ||
may be filed electronically with the court, judge, magistrate, or | ||
other officer taking the bond. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2499 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
2015, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2499 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |