Bill Text: TX HB736 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the maintenance of information entered into a fee record.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-18 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB736 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB736-Introduced.html
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| By: Shaheen | H.B. No. 736 | |
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| relating to the maintenance of information entered into a fee | ||
| record. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 103, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Article 103.0081 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 103.0081. UNCOLLECTIBLE FEES. (a) Any officer | ||
| authorized by this chapter to collect a fee or item of cost may | ||
| request the trial court in which a criminal action or proceeding was | ||
| held to make a finding that a fee or item of cost imposed in the | ||
| action or proceeding is uncollectible if the officer believes: | ||
| (1) the defendant is deceased; | ||
| (2) the defendant is serving a sentence for | ||
| imprisonment for life or life without parole; or | ||
| (3) the fee has been unpaid for at least 10 years. | ||
| (b) On a finding by a court that any condition described by | ||
| Subsections (a)(1)-(3) is true, the court may order the officer to | ||
| designate the fee or item of cost as uncollectible in the fee | ||
| record. The officer shall attach a copy of the court's order to the | ||
| fee record. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter G, Chapter 51, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.609 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.609. UNCOLLECTIBLE FEES. (a) The clerk may request | ||
| the court in which a court cost or fee was imposed on a party in a | ||
| civil case to make a finding that the cost or fee is uncollectible | ||
| if the cost or fee has been unpaid for at least 20 years. | ||
| (b) On a finding by a court that a court cost or fee imposed | ||
| on a party in a civil case is uncollectible, the court may order the | ||
| clerk to designate the cost or fee as uncollectible in the fee | ||
| record. The clerk shall attach a copy of the court's order to the | ||
| fee record. | ||
| (c) This section does not apply to a court cost or fee | ||
| imposed by the supreme court, the court of criminal appeals, or a | ||
| court of appeals. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
