Bill Text: TX SB413 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 413 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the maintenance of information entered into a fee record in certain counties.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB413 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB413-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 413




	AN ACT
	relating to the maintenance of information entered into a fee
	record in certain counties.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 103, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
	amended by adding Article 103.0081 to read as follows:
	Art. 103.0081. UNCOLLECTIBLE FEES. (a) Any officer
	authorized by this chapter to collect a fee or item of cost may
	request the trial court in which a criminal action or proceeding was
	held to make a finding that a fee or item of cost imposed in the
	action or proceeding is uncollectible if the officer believes:
	(1) the defendant is deceased;
	(2) the defendant is serving a sentence for
	imprisonment for life or life without parole; or
	(3) the fee has been unpaid for at least 15 years.
	(b) On a finding by a court that any condition described by
	Subsections (a)(1)-(3) is true, the court may order the officer to
	designate the fee or item of cost as uncollectible in the fee
	record. The officer shall attach a copy of the court's order to the
	fee record.
	(c) This article applies only to a county with a population
	of more than 780,000 but less than 790,000.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 413 passed the Senate on
	March 6, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 413 passed the House on
	May 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, two
	present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor