By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1170
73R6126 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the operation of a toll free crime stoppers telephone
1-3 service for areas of the state not served by a local crime stoppers
1-4 program.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Chapter 414, Government Code, is amended by
1-7 adding Section 414.012 to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 414.012. TOLL FREE TELEPHONE SERVICE. The council
1-9 shall establish and operate a toll free telephone service and make
1-10 the service accessible to persons residing in areas of the state
1-11 not served by a local crime stoppers program for reporting to the
1-12 council information about criminal acts. The toll free service
1-13 must be available between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8 a.m. Monday
1-14 through Thursday and from 5 p.m. Friday until 8 a.m. Monday. The
1-15 council shall forward the information received to appropriate law
1-16 enforcement agencies.
1-17 SECTION 2. Article 102.013(g), Code of Criminal Procedure,
1-18 is amended to read as follows:
1-19 (g) The legislature shall appropriate funds from the crime
1-20 stoppers assistance account to the Criminal Justice Division of the
1-21 Governor's Office. The Criminal Justice Division may use 10
1-22 percent of the funds for the operation of the toll free telephone
1-23 service under Section 414.012, Government Code, and shall
1-24 distribute the remainder of the <these> funds only to local crime
2-1 stoppers programs. The Criminal Justice Division may adopt a
2-2 budget and rules to implement the distribution of these funds.
2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.