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
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
By: Shaheen, Thierry, Smith | H.B. No. 435 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2019; | ||
April 16, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; April 17, 2019, rereferred to Committee on | ||
Administration; May 3, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; | ||
May 3, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 435 | By: Zaffirini |
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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is repealed.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. | ||
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