85R3046 MAW-D
 
  By: Cook H.B. No. 2071
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a defendant's payment of costs associated with a
  court-appointed counsel.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 26.05, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended by adding Subsection (g-1) to read as follows:
         (g-1)  This subsection applies only to a defendant who at the
  time of sentencing to confinement or placement on community
  supervision, including deferred adjudication community
  supervision, did not have the financial resources to pay the
  maximum amount described by Subsection (g)(1) or (2), as
  applicable, for legal services provided to the defendant.  At any
  time during a defendant's sentence of confinement or period of
  community supervision, the judge, after providing written notice to
  the defendant and an opportunity for the defendant to present
  information relevant to the defendant's ability to pay, may order a
  defendant to whom this subsection applies to pay any unpaid portion
  of that amount if the judge determines that the defendant has the
  financial resources to pay the additional portion.  In making a
  determination under this subsection, the judge may only consider
  the information a court or courts' designee is authorized to
  consider in making an indigency determination under Article
  26.04(m).
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.