Bill Text: TX HB80 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the discharge by certain defendants of fines and costs through community service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB80 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB80-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the discharge by certain defendants of fines and costs through community service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-16 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB80 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB80-Comm_Sub.html
87R15728 MCF-F | |||
By: J. Johnson of Harris | H.B. No. 80 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 80: | |||
By: Neave | C.S.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. |