Bill Text: TX HB1709 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 1709

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Bill Title: Relating to a special bill of review to reform a final judgment of forfeiture of a bail bond.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-04 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB1709 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1709-Comm_Sub.html

	88R2095 SHH-D

	By: Canales	H.B. No. 1709



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a special bill of review to reform a final judgment of
	forfeiture of a bail bond.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Article 22.17(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(a) Not later than the fourth anniversary of [~~two years~~
	~~after~~] the date a final judgment is entered in a bond forfeiture
	proceeding, the surety on the bond may file with the court a special
	bill of review. A special bill of review may include a request, on
	equitable grounds, that the final judgment be reformed and that all
	or part of the bond amount be remitted to the surety, after
	deducting the costs of court, any reasonable costs to the county for
	the return of the principal, and the interest accrued on the bond
	amount from the date of forfeiture. The court in its discretion may
	grant or deny the bill in whole or in part.
	SECTION 2. Article 22.17(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, as
	amended by this Act, applies only to a bail bond for which a final
	judgment of forfeiture is entered on or after the effective date of
	this Act. A bail bond for which a final judgment of forfeiture is
	entered before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
	in effect on the date the judgment was entered, and the former law
	is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.