Bill Text: TX HB4546 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to rules for issuing receipts pertaining to bail bonds.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB4546 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4546-Introduced.html
By: Longoria | H.B. No. 4546 |
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relating to rules for issuing receipts pertaining to bail bonds. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1704.305, of the Texas Occupations Code | ||
is amended as follows: | ||
Sec. 1704.305. BAIL BOND RECEIPT AND INSPECTION; OFFENSE. | ||
(a) A bail bond surety or an agent of a bail bond surety may not | ||
receive money or other consideration or thing of value from a person | ||
for whom the bail bond surety executes a bond unless the bail bond | ||
surety or agent issues a receipt to the person as provided by | ||
Subsection (b). | ||
(b) The receipt must state: | ||
(1) the name of the person who pays the money or | ||
transfers the consideration or thing of value; | ||
(2) the amount of money paid or the estimated amount of | ||
value transferred; | ||
(3) if the person transfers consideration or a thing | ||
of value, a brief description of the consideration or thing of | ||
value; | ||
(4) the name of the defendant [ |
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case and the court in which the bond is executed, if available; and | ||
(5) the name of the person receiving the money, | ||
consideration, or thing of value. | ||
(c) A bail bond surety or an agent of a bail bond surety | ||
shall retain a duplicate or electronic copy of a receipt issued | ||
under Subsection (a). The copy of the receipt shall be made | ||
available for inspection by: | ||
(1) a representative of the board in any county in | ||
which the bail bond surety is licensed; and | ||
(2) an appointed representative of a court in which | ||
the bail bond surety agrees to execute bail bonds. | ||
(d) A receipt may be supplemented. | ||
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |