Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 850 amends provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to the Crime Victims' Compensation Act to provide additional income payments to certain disabled peace officers. The bill establishes that a peace officer who, in the performance of the officer's duties, sustains an injury as a result of criminally injurious conduct that results in a total disability resulting in permanent incapacity is entitled to an annual payment subject to certain restrictions. Peace officers who are injured on or after September 1, 1989, would be eligible for the income benefit from the compensation to victims of crime fund. The bill provides that the total aggregate amount of all annual payments made under this provision may not exceed $200,000.