By: West S.B. No. 390
(In the Senate - Filed February 5, 2013; February 13, 2013,
read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
February 20, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 20, 2013, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the effective date of a new court cost or fee or of an
amendment to the amount of a court cost or fee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 51.607, Government Code,
is repealed.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a law imposing or changing the amount of a court cost or fee that
takes effect on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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