Bill Text: TX HB2523 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the reimbursement of expenses to certain counsel appointed to represent a defendant in a criminal proceeding.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB2523 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2523-Comm_Sub.html
By: Canales (Senate Sponsor - Perry) | H.B. No. 2523 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 2023; | ||
May 15, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal | ||
Justice; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the reimbursement of expenses to certain counsel | ||
appointed to represent a defendant in a criminal proceeding. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 26.05, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (d-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) A counsel in a noncapital case, other than an attorney | ||
with a public defender's office, appointed to represent a defendant | ||
under this code shall be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary | ||
expenses, including expenses for: | ||
(1) investigation; | ||
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(3) if the defendant is confined in a correctional | ||
facility located more than 50 miles from the court in which the | ||
defendant's proceeding is pending: | ||
(A) travel to the defendant's location for a | ||
confidential communication and food and lodging related to that | ||
travel; and | ||
(B) any costs associated with remotely entering | ||
into a confidential communication with the defendant. | ||
(d-1) Expenses under Subsection (d) incurred with prior | ||
court approval shall be reimbursed in the same manner provided for | ||
capital cases by Articles 26.052(f) and (g), and expenses under | ||
Subsection (d) incurred without prior court approval shall be | ||
reimbursed in the manner provided for capital cases by Article | ||
26.052(h). | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to expenses incurred on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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