Bill Text: TX SB1792 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the maintenance of information entered into a fee record.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-08 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB1792 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1792-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 1792 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2019; March 18, 2019, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
| April 8, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
| Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 8, 2019, | ||
| sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1792 | 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| is repealed.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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