By:  Parker                                            S.B. No. 173
       73R1033 NSC-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the use of criminal asset forfeiture funds for public
    1-3  schools.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 59.06, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
    1-7        (i)  As a specific exception to the requirement of
    1-8  Subdivisions (1)-(4) of Subsection (c) of this article that the
    1-9  funds described by those subdivisions be used only for the official
   1-10  purposes of the attorney representing the state or for law
   1-11  enforcement purposes, an attorney representing the state or head of
   1-12  a law enforcement agency shall forward one-fourth of the gross
   1-13  amount credited to the attorney's or agency's fund to the state
   1-14  treasury for deposit to the credit of the available school fund.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
   1-16  property or proceeds distributed to a law enforcement agency or
   1-17  attorney representing the state on or after the effective date of
   1-18  this Act.  Property or proceeds distributed before the effective
   1-19  date of this Act are covered by the law in effect at the time of
   1-20  distribution, and the former law is continued in effect for that
   1-21  purpose.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-23        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.