By: West S.B. No. 391
(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 a defendant's obligation to pay a fine or court cost
after the expiration of a period of community supervision.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 11, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as
follows:
(b-1) A defendant's obligation to pay a fine or court cost
as ordered by a judge exists independently of any requirement to pay
the fine or court cost as a condition of the defendant's community
supervision. A defendant remains obligated to pay any unpaid fine
or court cost after the expiration of the defendant's period of
community supervision.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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