Bill Text: TX HB76 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds to pay bail bonds.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 54)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-18 - Left pending in committee [HB76 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB76-Introduced.html
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| By: Smithee | H.B. No. 76 | |
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| relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds to | ||
| pay bail bonds. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 140, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 140.014 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 140.014. RESTRICTION ON USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS BY | ||
| POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS TO PAY BAIL BONDS. (a) A political | ||
| subdivision may not spend public funds to pay a nonprofit | ||
| organization that accepts and uses donations from the public to | ||
| deposit money with a court in the amount of a defendant's bail bond. | ||
| (b) If a political subdivision engages in an activity | ||
| prohibited by Subsection (a), a taxpayer or resident of the | ||
| political subdivision is entitled to appropriate injunctive relief | ||
| to prevent further activity prohibited by that subsection and | ||
| further payment of public funds related to that activity. | ||
| (c) A taxpayer or resident who prevails in an action under | ||
| Subsection (b) is entitled to recover from the political | ||
| subdivision the taxpayer's or resident's reasonable attorney's fees | ||
| and costs incurred in bringing the action. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
