By: Davis H.B. No. 3983
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a municipality collecting a delinquent fine or fee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 4, Local Government Code, is
amended by adding Chapter 109 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 109. BAR ON COLLECTION
Sec. 109.001. BAR ON COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT FINE OR FEE.
(a) A municipality may not collect a fine or fee from a person that
has been delinquent for more than five years unless the
municipality has made a reasonable attempts to provided notice to
the person under Subsection (b).
(b) A municipality must provide notice under Subsection (a)
by certified mail to the person's last known address. If the
municipality does not have a record of the person's address, the
municipality must provide notice by any other means available to
the municipality.
SECTION 2. Section 109.001, Local Government Code, as added
by this Act, applies only to a fine or fee assessed by a
municipality on or after the effective date of this Act. A fine or
fee assessed before the effective date of this Act is governed by
the law in effect on the date the fine or fee was assessed, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.