Bill Text: TX HB581 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 581 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the manner in which a bail bond or personal bond is forfeited.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-02 - Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm. [HB581 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB581-Introduced.html

	84R4750 KJE-F

	By: Harless	H.B. No. 581



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the manner in which a bail bond or personal bond is
	forfeited.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Article 22.02, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
	amended to read as follows:
	Art. 22.02. MANNER OF TAKING A FORFEITURE. Bail bonds and
	personal bonds are forfeited in the following manner: The name of
	the defendant shall be called distinctly at the courthouse door,
	and if the defendant does not appear within a reasonable time after
	such call is made, judgment shall be entered that the State of Texas
	recover of the defendant the amount of money in which the defendant
	[he] is bound, and of the defendant's [~~his~~] sureties, if any, the
	amount of money in which the sureties [~~they~~] are respectively
	bound, and the [~~which~~] judgment shall state that the judgment
	[~~same~~] will be made final, unless good cause be shown why the
	defendant did not appear. For purposes of this article, a
	reasonable time is presumed to be not less than 72 hours.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to a bail bond or personal bond executed on or after the effective
	date of this Act. A bail bond or personal bond executed before the
	effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the
	bond was executed, and the former law is continued in effect for
	that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.