H.B. No. 2766
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an audit of the proceeds of criminal asset forfeitures.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 59.06(g), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (g) All law enforcement agencies and attorneys representing
1-7 the state who receive proceeds or property under this chapter shall
1-8 account for the seizure, receipt, and disbursement of all such
1-9 proceeds and property in an audit, which is to be performed
1-10 annually by the commissioners court or governing body of a
1-11 municipality, as appropriate. The audit shall be completed on a
1-12 form provided by the Criminal Justice Division of the Governor's
1-13 Office. Certified copies of the audit shall be delivered by the
1-14 law enforcement agency or attorney representing the state to the
1-15 Criminal Justice Division of the Governor's Office <to the attorney
1-16 general and to the governor> no later than 30 days after the audit
1-17 is completed.
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.