85R3173 KJE-D     By: Canales H.B. No. 662       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to a credit toward payment of costs for a defendant   confined in jail or other facility before sentencing.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 2, Article 42.03, Code of Criminal   Procedure, is amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as   follows:          (a-1)  In addition to the credit on the defendant's sentence   given under Subsection (a), for each day of confinement described   by Subdivision (1) of that subsection, the judge shall give the   defendant, at a rate of $100 per day, credit toward payment of costs   imposed on the defendant.          SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to a   defendant who is sentenced for an offense on or after the effective   date of this Act, regardless of whether the offense is committed   before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.