By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1792
(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2019; March 18, 2019, read
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
April 8, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 8, 2019,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1792 By: Zaffirini
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the maintenance of information entered into a fee
record.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 51, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 51.609 to read as follows:
Sec. 51.609. UNCOLLECTIBLE FEES. (a) The clerk may
request the court in which a court cost or fee was imposed on a party
in a civil case to make a finding that the cost or fee is
uncollectible if the cost or fee has been unpaid for at least 15
years.
(b) On a finding by a court that a court cost or fee imposed
on a party in a civil case is uncollectible, the court may order the
clerk to designate the cost or fee as uncollectible in the fee
record. The clerk shall attach a copy of the court's order to the
fee record.
(c) This section does not apply to a court cost or fee
imposed by the supreme court, the court of criminal appeals, or a
court of appeals.
SECTION 2. Article 103.0081(c), Code of Criminal Procedure,
is repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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