1-1 By: Gray (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) H.B. No. 2111
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993;
1-3 May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
1-4 Justice; May 25, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 25, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Whitmire x
1-9 Brown x
1-10 Nelson x
1-11 Sibley x
1-12 Sims x
1-13 Turner x
1-14 West x
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to the disposition of money in an inmate trust fund.
1-18 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-19 SECTION 1. Section 501.014, Government Code, is amended by
1-20 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-21 (e) On notification by a court, the director of the
1-22 institutional division shall withdraw from an inmate's trust fund
1-23 any amount the inmate is ordered to pay by order of the court for
1-24 child support, restitution, fines, and court costs. The director
1-25 shall make a payment under this subsection as ordered by the court
1-26 to either the court or the party specified in the court order. The
1-27 director, the institutional division, and the department are not
1-28 liable for withdrawing or failing to withdraw money or making
1-29 payments or failing to make payments under this subsection. The
1-30 director shall make withdrawals and payments from an inmate's trust
1-31 fund under this subsection according to the following schedule of
1-32 priorities:
1-33 (1) as payment in full for all orders for child
1-34 support;
1-35 (2) as payment in full for all orders for restitution;
1-36 (3) as payment in full for all orders for fines; and
1-37 (4) as payment in full for all orders for court costs.
1-38 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-39 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-40 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-41 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-42 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-43 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-44 * * * * *
1-45 Austin,
1-46 Texas
1-47 May 25, 1993
1-48 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-49 President of the Senate
1-50 Sir:
1-51 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred H.B.
1-52 No. 2111, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-53 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-54 that it do pass and be printed.
1-55 Whitmire,
1-56 Chairman
1-57 * * * * *
1-58 WITNESSES
1-59 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2111.