| 1 | 1 | | By: White H.B. No. 2707 |
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| 4 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 6 | | relating to the manner in which a bail bond or personal bond is |
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| 7 | 7 | | forfeited. |
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| 8 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Article 22.02, Code of Criminal Procedure, is |
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| 10 | 10 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | Art. 22.02. MANNER OF TAKING A FORFEITURE. Bail bonds and |
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| 12 | 12 | | personal bonds are forfeited in the following manner: The name of |
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| 13 | 13 | | the defendant shall be called distinctly at the courthouse door, |
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| 14 | 14 | | and if the defendant does not appear within a reasonable time after |
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| 15 | 15 | | such call is made, judgment shall be entered that the State of Texas |
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| 16 | 16 | | recover of the defendant the amount of money in which the defendant |
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| 17 | 17 | | [he] is bound, and of the defendant's [his] sureties, if any, the |
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| 18 | 18 | | amount of money in which the sureties [they] are respectively |
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| 19 | 19 | | bound, and the [which] judgment shall state that the judgment |
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| 20 | 20 | | [same] will be made final, unless good cause be shown why the |
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| 21 | 21 | | defendant did not appear. For purposes of this article, a |
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| 22 | 22 | | reasonable time is presumed to be not less than 72 hours. |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
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| 24 | 24 | | to a bail bond or personal bond executed on or after the effective |
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| 25 | 25 | | date of this Act. A bail bond or personal bond executed before the |
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| 26 | 26 | | effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the |
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| 27 | 27 | | bond was executed, and the former law is continued in effect for |
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| 28 | 28 | | that purpose. |
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| 29 | 29 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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