By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1096
(In the Senate - Filed March 5, 2013; March 12, 2013, read
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
March 27, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
Nays 0; March 27, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the monthly fee a defendant must pay during a period of
community supervision.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 19, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
follows:
(a-1) A judge may not require a defendant to pay the fee
under Subsection (a) for any month after the period of community
supervision has been terminated by the judge under Section 20.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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