73R7706 E
          By Gray                                               H.B. No. 2111
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2111:
          By Hamric                                         C.S.H.B. No. 2111
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the disposition of money in an inmate trust fund.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 501.014, Government Code, is amended by
    1-5  adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-6        (e)  On notification by a court, the director of the
    1-7  institutional division shall withdraw from an inmate's trust fund
    1-8  any amount the inmate is ordered to pay by order of the court for
    1-9  child support, restitution, fines, and court costs.  The director
   1-10  shall make a payment under this subsection as ordered by the court
   1-11  to either the court or the party specified in the court order.  The
   1-12  director, the institutional division, and the department are not
   1-13  liable for withdrawing or failing to withdraw money or making
   1-14  payments or failing to make payments under this subsection.  The
   1-15  director shall make withdrawals and payments from an inmate's trust
   1-16  fund under this subsection according to the following schedule of
   1-17  priorities:
   1-18              (1)  as payment in full for all orders for child
   1-19  support;
   1-20              (2)  as payment in full for all orders for restitution;
   1-21              (3)  as payment in full for all orders for fines; and
   1-22              (4)  as payment in full for all orders for court costs.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  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.