Bill Text: TX HB828 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 828 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to credit toward payment of a fine and costs for certain misdemeanants confined in jail or prison before sentencing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-29 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB828 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB828-Introduced.html

	86R3506 MAW-D

	By: Rose	H.B. No. 828



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to credit toward payment of a fine and costs for certain
	misdemeanants confined in jail or prison before sentencing.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Article 45.041, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
	amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsections (c-1) and
	(c-2) to read as follows:
	(c) The justice or judge shall credit the defendant for time
	served in jail as provided by Article 42.03.
	(c-1) In addition to credit under Subsection (c), in
	imposing a fine and costs in a case involving a misdemeanor
	punishable by a fine only, the justice or judge shall credit the
	defendant for any time the defendant was confined in jail or prison
	while serving a sentence for another offense if that confinement
	occurred after the commission of the misdemeanor.
	(c-2) A [~~The~~] credit under Subsection (c) or (c-1) shall be
	applied to the amount of the fine and costs at the rate provided by
	Article 45.048.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a
	defendant who is sentenced for an offense on or after the effective
	date of this Act, regardless of whether the offense is committed
	before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.