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.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 435 By:  Zaffirini
 
 
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  is repealed.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.
 
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