By: Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Campbell) H.B. No. 1448
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2013;
May 6, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on
Jurisprudence; May 16, 2013, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 6, Nays 1; May 16, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of money deposited to a justice court technology
fund in certain counties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 102.0173, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) A justice court may, subject to the approval of the
commissioners court, use a fund designated by this article to
assist a constable's office or other county department with a
technological enhancement, or cost related to the enhancement,
described by Subsection (d)(1) or (2) if the enhancement directly
relates to the operation or efficiency of the justice court. This
subsection applies only to a county that:
(1) has a population of 125,000 or more;
(2) is not adjacent to a county of two million or more;
(3) contains a portion of the Guadalupe River; and
(4) contains a portion of Interstate Highway 10.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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