By:  Cain                                             H.B. No. 2766
       73R6768 GWK-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    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 comptroller of public accounts.  Certified
   1-13  copies of the audit shall be delivered by the law enforcement
   1-14  agency or attorney representing the state to the comptroller <to
   1-15  the attorney general and to the governor> no later than 30 days
   1-16  after the audit is completed.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.