Bill Text: TX HB3030 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to alternative means of payment of certain fines.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3030 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3030-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Fletcher, Canales, King of Parker, | H.B. No. 3030 | ||
| Pickett, Lavender | |||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3030: | |||
| By: Herrero | C.S.H.B. No. 3030 | ||
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| relating to alternative means of payment of certain fines. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Chapter 103, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 103. PAYMENT, COLLECTION, AND RECORDKEEPING | ||
| SECTION 2. Chapter 103, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Article 103.0025 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 103.0025. ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT PROCEDURE FOR CERTAIN | ||
| FINES. (a) This article applies only to payment of: | ||
| (1) a fine and court costs associated with the alleged | ||
| commission of a Class C misdemeanor by a defendant; and | ||
| (2) a judgment for fines and court costs of a defendant | ||
| convicted of any offense, if a capias pro fine has been issued in | ||
| the case. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the court | ||
| may adopt an alternative procedure for collecting an outstanding | ||
| payment described by Subsection (a). Under the procedure, a peace | ||
| officer making an arrest of a defendant: | ||
| (1) shall inform the arrested person of: | ||
| (A) the possibility of making an immediate | ||
| payment of the fine and related court costs by use of a credit or | ||
| debit card; and | ||
| (B) the arrested person's available alternatives | ||
| to making an immediate payment; and | ||
| (2) may accept, on behalf of the court, the arrested | ||
| person's immediate payment of the fine and related court costs by | ||
| use of a credit or debit card, after which the peace officer must | ||
| release the person. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
