By: De La Garza H.B. No. 21 73R1119 DRH-D 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 Subdivisions (1)-(3) of Subsection 1-8 (c) of this article, the attorney representing the state or the 1-9 head of the law enforcement agency shall, on the request of the 1-10 governing body of a school district located wholly or partly in the 1-11 jurisdiction of the attorney or agency, contribute funds from the 1-12 special funds established under those subdivisions to the school 1-13 district for use by the district in gang suppression programs. The 1-14 total amount contributed to all school districts located in the 1-15 jurisdiction of the attorney or agency may not exceed 25 percent of 1-16 the gross amount credited to the attorney's or agency's fund. The 1-17 attorney or the agency shall distribute the funds on the basis of 1-18 enrollment if more than one school district requests funds. 1-19 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only 1-20 to property or proceeds distributed to a law enforcement agency or 1-21 the attorney representing the state on or after the effective date 1-22 of this Act. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.