| 1 | 1 | | By: Burton S.B. No. 599 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed January 25, 2017; February 8, 2017, |
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| 3 | 3 | | read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation; |
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| 4 | 4 | | April 12, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, |
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| 5 | 5 | | Nays 0; April 12, 2017, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | 6 | | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 9 | 9 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 10 | 10 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 11 | | relating to the deferral and reduction or waiver of certain |
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| 12 | 12 | | surcharges assessed under the driver responsibility program. |
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| 13 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 708, Transportation Code, |
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| 15 | 15 | | is amended by adding Section 708.160 to read as follows: |
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| 16 | 16 | | Sec. 708.160. DEFERRAL AND REDUCTION OR WAIVER OF CERTAIN |
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| 17 | 17 | | SURCHARGES. A court may defer surcharges assessed under this |
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| 18 | 18 | | chapter against a person who is participating in a drug court |
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| 19 | 19 | | program under Chapter 123, Government Code, for the underlying |
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| 20 | 20 | | offense giving rise to the surcharge. If a person successfully |
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| 21 | 21 | | completes the drug court program, the court may reduce or waive the |
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| 22 | 22 | | surcharges assessed against the person. |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a |
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| 24 | 24 | | surcharge pending on the effective date of this Act, regardless of |
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| 25 | 25 | | when the surcharge was assessed. |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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| 27 | 27 | | * * * * * |
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