Bill Text: TX SB327 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 327 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a court to return certain fees to a person who is the subject of an order of nondisclosure of criminal history record information.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-11 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB327 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB327-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Burton, et al.	S.B. No. 327

	(Thompson of Harris)


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the authority of a court to return certain fees to a
	person who is the subject of an order of nondisclosure of criminal
	history record information.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter E-1, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 411.0746 to read as follows:
	Sec. 411.0746. RETURN OF FEES. A court that issues an order
	of nondisclosure of criminal history record information under this
	subchapter may order that any fee, or portion of a fee, required to
	be paid under this subchapter or other law in relation to the order
	be returned to the person who is the subject of that order.
	SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
	an order of nondisclosure of criminal history record information
	issued on or after the effective date of this Act. The issuance of
	an order of nondisclosure of criminal history record information
	before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
	effect on the date the order was issued, and the former law is
	continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.