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| 1 | 1 | By: Davis H.B. No. 3983 | |
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| 4 | 4 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 5 | 5 | AN ACT | |
| 6 | 6 | relating to a municipality collecting a delinquent fine or fee. | |
| 7 | 7 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 8 | 8 | SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 4, Local Government Code, is | |
| 9 | 9 | amended by adding Chapter 109 to read as follows: | |
| 10 | 10 | CHAPTER 109. BAR ON COLLECTION | |
| 11 | 11 | Sec. 109.001. BAR ON COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT FINE OR FEE. | |
| 12 | 12 | (a) A municipality may not collect a fine or fee from a person that | |
| 13 | 13 | has been delinquent for more than five years unless the | |
| 14 | 14 | municipality has made a reasonable attempts to provided notice to | |
| 15 | 15 | the person under Subsection (b). | |
| 16 | 16 | (b) A municipality must provide notice under Subsection (a) | |
| 17 | 17 | by certified mail to the person's last known address. If the | |
| 18 | 18 | municipality does not have a record of the person's address, the | |
| 19 | 19 | municipality must provide notice by any other means available to | |
| 20 | 20 | the municipality. | |
| 21 | 21 | SECTION 2. Section 109.001, Local Government Code, as added | |
| 22 | 22 | by this Act, applies only to a fine or fee assessed by a | |
| 23 | 23 | municipality on or after the effective date of this Act. A fine or | |
| 24 | 24 | fee assessed before the effective date of this Act is governed by | |
| 25 | 25 | the law in effect on the date the fine or fee was assessed, and the | |
| 26 | 26 | former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | |
| 27 | 27 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |