1-1 By: Ramsay (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 2456
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1993;
1-3 May 12, 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 6, 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 operation of a toll-free crime stoppers telephone
1-18 service for areas of the state not served by a local crime stoppers
1-19 program.
1-20 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-21 SECTION 1. Chapter 414, Government Code, is amended by
1-22 adding Section 414.012 to read as follows:
1-23 Sec. 414.012. TOLL-FREE TELEPHONE SERVICE. The council
1-24 shall establish and operate a toll-free telephone service and make
1-25 the service accessible to persons residing in areas of the state
1-26 not served by a local crime stoppers program for reporting to the
1-27 council information about criminal acts. The toll-free service
1-28 must be available between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8 a.m. Monday
1-29 through Thursday and from 5 p.m. Friday until 8 a.m. Monday. The
1-30 council shall forward the information received to appropriate law
1-31 enforcement agencies or local crime stoppers program.
1-32 SECTION 2. Article 102.013(g), Code of Criminal Procedure,
1-33 is amended to read as follows:
1-34 (g) The legislature shall appropriate funds from the crime
1-35 stoppers assistance account to the Criminal Justice Division of the
1-36 Governor's Office. The Criminal Justice Division may use 10
1-37 percent of the funds for the operation of the toll-free telephone
1-38 service under Section 414.012, Government Code, and shall
1-39 distribute the remainder of the <these> funds only to local crime
1-40 stoppers programs. The Criminal Justice Division may adopt a
1-41 budget and rules to implement the distribution of these funds.
1-42 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-47 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-48 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-49 * * * * *
1-50 Austin,
1-51 Texas
1-52 May 25, 1993
1-53 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-54 President of the Senate
1-55 Sir:
1-56 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred H.B.
1-57 No. 2456, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-58 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-59 that it do pass and be printed.
1-60 Whitmire,
1-61 Chairman
1-62 * * * * *
1-63 WITNESSES
1-64 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2456.