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CHAPTER 319. LEGISLATION REGARDING JUDICIAL SYSTEM


	§ 319.021. IMPACT STATEMENT ON LEGISLATION IMPOSING COURT 
COSTS ON CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS.  (a) This section applies only to a 
new court cost or fee that is remitted to the comptroller.
	(b)  The Legislative Budget Board shall prepare an impact 
statement for each resolution proposing a constitutional amendment 
or bill that proposes imposing a new court cost or fee on a person 
charged with a criminal offense or increasing the amount of an 
existing court cost or fee imposed on a person charged with a 
criminal offense, including a court cost or fee imposed on 
conviction or other disposition or postponed disposition of the 
criminal charge.
	(c)  The impact statement must show the total amount of court 
costs and fees that persons will be required to pay under the bill 
or resolution when considered together with all other applicable 
laws.
	(d)  The state auditor shall provide the Legislative Budget 
Board with the initial data needed to develop a mechanism that will 
be used to produce the impact statements.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 209, § 84, eff. Oct. 1, 2003.