82R497 ALL-F
By: Darby H.B. No. 809
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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
be used for the purposes provided by Subsection (d) [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].
(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
the attorney [used solely to administer the pretrial intervention
program. An expenditure from the fund may be made only in
accordance with a budget approved by the commissioners court].
(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.