Bill Text: TX HB2918 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the imposition of a supplemental court security fee on conviction of certain criminal offenses.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-14 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB2918 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2918-Introduced.html

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88R11476 TSS-F
By: Reynolds H.B. No. 2918

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the imposition of a supplemental court security fee on
conviction of certain criminal offenses.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Articles 102.017(a) and (d), Code of Criminal
Procedure, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The courthouse security fund is a fund in the county
treasury, and the municipal court building security fund is a fund
in the municipal treasury. The funds consist of:
(1) money allocated to the funds under Sections
134.101, 134.102, 134.103, 135.101, and 135.102, Local Government
Code; and
(2) money deposited to the funds under Section
134.104, Local Government Code.
(d) This subsection applies only to a justice court located
in a county in which one or more justice courts are located in a
building that is not the county courthouse. The county treasurer
shall deposit one-fourth of the money allocated or deposited to the
courthouse security fund under Sections [Section] 134.103 and
134.104, Local Government Code, in a fund to be known as the justice
court building security fund. A fund designated by this subsection
may be used only for the purpose of providing security personnel,
services, and items for a justice court located in a building that
is not the county courthouse.
SECTION 2. Section 134.002(a)(1), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(1) "Fee" means a criminal fee described by [listed
under] Section 134.003.
SECTION 3. Section 134.003, Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 134.003. CRIMINAL FEES. This chapter applies to the
criminal fees imposed under Subchapter C [Sections 134.101,
134.102, and 134.103].
SECTION 4. Section 134.052(a), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) Money collected under Subchapter C as court costs
[imposed on offenses committed on or after January 1, 2020,] shall
be:
(1) allocated according to the percentages provided by
Sections 134.101, 134.102, and 134.103, as applicable; or
(2) deposited as provided by Section 134.104.
SECTION 5. Subchapter C, Chapter 134, Local Government
Code, is amended by adding Section 134.104 to read as follows:
Sec. 134.104. SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY FEE. (a) In addition
to any other fee paid under this subchapter, a person convicted of a
misdemeanor or felony offense whose sentence on conviction of the
offense includes the imposition of a fine shall pay a $1
supplemental security fee as a cost of court.
(b) The treasurer shall deposit the court costs collected
under Subsection (a) to the courthouse security fund or municipal
court building security fund, as appropriate.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.