Bill Text: TX HB809 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the use of certain fees collected for pretrial intervention programs offered in a county.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-29 - Left pending in committee [HB809 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB809-Introduced.html
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By: Darby | H.B. No. 809 |
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relating to the use of certain fees collected for pretrial | ||
intervention programs offered in a county. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 102.0121, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsection | ||
(d) to read as follows: | ||
(a) A district attorney, criminal district attorney, or | ||
county attorney may collect a fee in an amount not to exceed $500 to | ||
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(c) Fees collected under this article shall be deposited in | ||
the county treasury in a special fund to be administered by the | ||
district attorney, criminal district attorney, or county attorney. | ||
Approval of expenditures from the fund is at the sole discretion of | ||
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(d) A district attorney, criminal district attorney, or | ||
county attorney shall use money in the fund to reimburse a county | ||
for expenses, including expenses of the district attorney's, | ||
criminal district attorney's, or county attorney's office, related | ||
to a defendant's participation in a pretrial intervention program | ||
offered in that county. The district attorney, criminal district | ||
attorney, or county attorney may use any remaining amount to defray | ||
the salaries and expenses of the prosecutor's office, but the | ||
attorney may not use money in the fund to supplement the attorney's | ||
own salary. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |