Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 104.004 · Chapter 104. CERTAIN EXPENSES PAID BY STATE OR COUNTY
EXTRAORDINARY COSTS OF PROSECUTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The criminal justice division of the governor's office may distribute money appropriated by the legislature for the purposes of this article to a county for the reimbursement of expenses incurred by the county during the fiscal year during which application is made or the fiscal year preceding the year during which application is made for the investigation or prosecution of an offense under Section 19.03, Penal Code, or an offense under the Penal Code alleged by the attorney representing the state to have been committed for a purpose or reason described by Article 42.014.
(b) For each fiscal year, the division shall distribute at least 50 percent of the money distributed under this article during that year to counties with a population of less than 50,000, except that if the total distributions applied for by those counties is less than 50 percent of the money distributed during that year, the division is only required to distribute to those counties the amount of money for which applications have been made.
(c) The division may adopt a budget and rules for the distribution of money under this article.
(d) All money distributed to a county under this article and its expenditure by the county are subject to audit by the state auditor.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 664, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 85, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.104.htm
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