Bill Text: TX HB80 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the discharge by certain defendants of fines and costs through community service.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB80 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB80-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 80 | ||
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| relating to the discharge by certain defendants of fines and costs | ||
| through community service. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Article 45.041, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (b-6) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-6) Notwithstanding Subsection (a-1) or any other | ||
| provision of this chapter, when imposing a fine and costs, the | ||
| justice or judge may not require a defendant who is under the | ||
| conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services | ||
| or in extended foster care as provided by Subchapter G, Chapter 263, | ||
| Family Code, to pay any amount of the fine and costs. In lieu of the | ||
| payment of fine and costs, the justice or judge may require the | ||
| defendant to perform community service as provided by Article | ||
| 45.049, 45.0492, as added by Chapter 227 (H.B. 350), Acts of the | ||
| 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, or 45.0492, as added by | ||
| Chapter 777 (H.B. 1964), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular | ||
| Session, 2011, as appropriate. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a | ||
| sentencing proceeding that commences before, on, or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 80 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 15, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 127, Nays 18, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 80 was passed by the Senate on May 26, | ||
| 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
