73R7278 DRH-F
          By De La Garza, Romo, et al.                            H.B. No. 21
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the use of proceeds derived from criminal asset
    1-3  forfeiture for gang suppression programs.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 59.06, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
    1-7        (i)  As an exception to Subdivision (4) of Subsection (c) of
    1-8  this article, the director of the Department of Public Safety each
    1-9  year shall transfer to the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission 20
   1-10  percent of the gross amount credited under this article to the
   1-11  department's fund or $500,000, whichever is less.  The Texas
   1-12  Juvenile Probation Commission may use money received under this
   1-13  subsection only to provide grants to local law enforcement agencies
   1-14  for gang suppression programs.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Subchapter E, Chapter 141, Human Resources Code,
   1-16  is amended by adding Section 141.086 to read as follows:
   1-17        Sec. 141.086.  GANG SUPPRESSION PROGRAMS.  The commission,
   1-18  from the funds received under Article 59.06(i), Code of Criminal
   1-19  Procedure, shall provide grants to local law enforcement agencies
   1-20  to operate gang suppression programs.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
   1-22  to property or proceeds distributed to a state law enforcement
   1-23  agency on or after the effective date of this Act.
   1-24        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-5  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-6  passage, and it is so enacted.