| 1 | | - | By: Burton, Huffines S.B. No. 326 |
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| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Filed December 14, 2016; January 30, 2017, |
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| 3 | | - | read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; |
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| 4 | | - | March 15, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, |
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| 5 | | - | Nays 0; March 15, 2017, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 1 | + | By: Burton, et al. S.B. No. 326 |
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| 9 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 10 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 6 | | relating to the authority of a court to return certain fees to a |
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| 12 | 7 | | person whose criminal record has been expunged. |
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| 13 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 14 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Article 102.006, Code of Criminal Procedure, is |
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| 15 | 10 | | amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: |
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| 16 | 11 | | (c) A court that grants a petition for expunction of a |
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| 17 | 12 | | criminal record may order that any fee, or portion of a fee, |
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| 18 | 13 | | required to be paid under this article or other law in relation to |
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| 19 | 14 | | the petition be returned to the petitioner. |
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| 20 | 15 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only |
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| 21 | 16 | | to a petition for expunction filed on or after the effective date of |
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| 22 | 17 | | this Act. A petition for expunction filed before the effective date |
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| 23 | 18 | | of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the petition |
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| 24 | 19 | | was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that |
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| 25 | 20 | | purpose. |
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| 26 | 21 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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