By: West	S.B. No. 391
	(In the Senate - Filed February 5, 2013; February 13, 2013,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
	February 20, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:
	Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 20, 2013, sent to printer.)

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a defendant's obligation to pay a fine or court cost
	after the expiration of a period of community supervision.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 11, Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
	Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as
	follows:
	(b-1)  A defendant's obligation to pay a fine or court cost
	as ordered by a judge exists independently of any requirement to pay
	the fine or court cost as a condition of the defendant's community
	supervision.  A defendant remains obligated to pay any unpaid fine
	or court cost after the expiration of the defendant's period of
	community supervision.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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