By:  Whitmire                                          S.B. No. 760
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the disposition of funds in inmate trust fund accounts.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section 501.014, Government Code, is amended by
    1-4  adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
    1-5        (e)  Any money in an inmate's trust account shall be subject
    1-6  to levy by a court or holding by the Institutional Division to pay
    1-7  all restitution, fines, sanctions, alimony, and child support
    1-8  ordered by a court against a prisoner before paying any such money
    1-9  into an inmates' trust accounts.  The Department of Criminal
   1-10  Justice shall not be civilly liable for holding or failing to hold
   1-11  funds under this Subsection.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.