By:  Gray                                             H.B. No. 2111
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                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the disposition of funds in inmate trust fund accounts.
    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)  Any money in an inmate's trust account shall be subject
    1-7  to levy by a court or holding by the Institutional Division to pay
    1-8  all restitution, fines, sanctions, alimony, and child support
    1-9  ordered by a court against a prisoner before paying any such money
   1-10  into an inmates' trust accounts.  The Department of Criminal
   1-11  Justice shall not be civilly liable for holding or failing to hold
   1-12  funds under this Subsection.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.