Bill Text: TX SB391 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 391 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to a defendant's obligation to pay a fine or court cost after the expiration of a period of community supervision.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB391 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB391-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 391




	AN ACT
	relating to a defendant's obligation to pay a fine or court cost
	after the expiration of a period of community supervision.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 11, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
	Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as
	follows:
	(b-1) A defendant's obligation to pay a fine or court cost
	as ordered by a judge exists independently of any requirement to pay
	the fine or court cost as a condition of the defendant's community
	supervision. A defendant remains obligated to pay any unpaid fine
	or court cost after the expiration of the defendant's period of
	community supervision.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 391 passed the Senate on
	March 13, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 391 passed the House on
	May 20, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, two
	present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor