86R1053 KJE-D
By: Canales H.B. No. 178
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a credit toward payment of costs for a defendant
confined in jail or another facility before sentencing.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2, Article 42.03, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as
follows:
(a-1) In addition to the credit on the defendant's sentence
given under Subsection (a), for each day of confinement described
by Subdivision (1) of that subsection, the judge shall give the
defendant, at a rate of $100 per day, credit toward payment of costs
imposed on the defendant.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a
defendant who is sentenced for an offense on or after the effective
date of this Act, regardless of whether the offense is committed
before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.