82R497 ALL-F
	By: Darby	H.B. No. 809

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the use of certain fees collected for pretrial
	intervention programs offered in a county.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Article 102.0121, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
	amended by amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsection
	(d) to read as follows:
	(a)  A district attorney, criminal district attorney, or
	county attorney may collect a fee in an amount not to exceed $500 to
	be used for the purposes provided by Subsection (d) [to reimburse a
	county for expenses, including expenses of the district attorney's,
	criminal district attorney's, or county attorney's office, related
	to a defendant's participation in a pretrial intervention program
	offered in that county].
	(c)  Fees collected under this article shall be deposited in
	the county treasury in a special fund to be administered by the
	district attorney, criminal district attorney, or county attorney.
	Approval of expenditures from the fund is at the sole discretion of
	the attorney [used solely to administer the pretrial intervention
	program.   An expenditure from the fund may be made only in
	accordance with a budget approved by the commissioners court].
	(d)  A district attorney, criminal district attorney, or
	county attorney shall use money in the fund to reimburse a county
	for expenses, including expenses of the district attorney's,
	criminal district attorney's, or county attorney's office, related
	to a defendant's participation in a pretrial intervention program
	offered in that county.  The district attorney, criminal district
	attorney, or county attorney may use any remaining amount to defray
	the salaries and expenses of the prosecutor's office, but the
	attorney may not use money in the fund to supplement the attorney's
	own salary.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.