Bill Text: TX HB662 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a credit toward payment of costs for a defendant confined in jail or other facility before sentencing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-27 - Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence [HB662 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB662-Introduced.html
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By: Canales | H.B. No. 662 |
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relating to a credit toward payment of costs for a defendant | ||
confined in jail or other facility before sentencing. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2, Article 42.03, Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a-1) In addition to the credit on the defendant's sentence | ||
given under Subsection (a), for each day of confinement described | ||
by Subdivision (1) of that subsection, the judge shall give the | ||
defendant, at a rate of $100 per day, credit toward payment of costs | ||
imposed on the defendant. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a | ||
defendant who is sentenced for an offense on or after the effective | ||
date of this Act, regardless of whether the offense is committed | ||
before, on, or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |