Bill Text: TX HB435 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the maintenance of information entered into a fee record.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-05-23 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB435 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB435-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Shaheen, Thierry H.B. No. 435
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 435:
By: Neave C.S.H.B. No. 435

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the maintenance of information entered into a fee
record.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 51, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 51.609 to read as follows:
Sec. 51.609. UNCOLLECTIBLE FEES. (a) The clerk may request
the court in which a court cost or fee was imposed on a party in a
civil case to make a finding that the cost or fee is uncollectible
if the cost or fee has been unpaid for at least 15 years.
(b) On a finding by a court that a court cost or fee imposed
on a party in a civil case is uncollectible, the court may order the
clerk to designate the cost or fee as uncollectible in the fee
record. The clerk shall attach a copy of the court's order to the
fee record.
(c) This section does not apply to a court cost or fee
imposed by the supreme court, the court of criminal appeals, or a
court of appeals.
SECTION 2. Article 103.0081(c), Code of Criminal Procedure,
is repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.