Bill Text: TX SB740 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the assessment of court costs and fees on conviction of multiple offenses or on conviction of multiple counts of the same offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [SB740 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB740-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 740 | ||
|
|
||
| relating to the assessment of court costs and fees on conviction of | ||
| multiple offenses or on conviction of multiple counts of the same | ||
| offense. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 102, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended by adding Article 102.073 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 102.073. ASSESSMENT OF COURT COSTS AND FEES IN A SINGLE | ||
| CRIMINAL ACTION. (a) In a single criminal action in which a | ||
| defendant is convicted of two or more offenses or of multiple counts | ||
| of the same offense, the court may assess each court cost or fee | ||
| only once against the defendant. | ||
| (b) In a criminal action described by Subsection (a), each | ||
| court cost or fee the amount of which is determined according to the | ||
| category of offense must be assessed using the highest category of | ||
| offense that is possible based on the defendant's convictions. | ||
| (c) This article does not apply to a single criminal action | ||
| alleging only the commission of two or more offenses punishable by | ||
| fine only. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a | ||
| court cost or fee imposed on or after the effective date of this | ||
| Act, regardless of whether the offense for which the cost or fee was | ||
| imposed was committed before, on, or after that date. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 740 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 30, 2015, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 740 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 128, | ||
| Nays 16, two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
