BILL ANALYSIS


                                                     C.S.S.B. 346
                                                        By: Brown
                                                 Criminal Justice
                                                         04-10-95
                                   Committee Report (Substituted)
BACKGROUND

Currently, jurors do not have the option of donating their
compensation to the victims of crime fund.

PURPOSE

As proposed, C.S.S.B. 346 provides jurors with an option of having
their reimbursement for jury service be donated toward the
compensation to victims of crime fund.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or
agency.

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Chapter 61, Government Code, by adding Section
61.003, as follows:

     Sec. 61.003.  DONATION OF REIMBURSEMENT.  (a)  Requires a
     person responsible for summoning jurors for jury service to
     provide to each prospect an optional form which directs the
     county treasurer to donate all or part of the prospective
     juror's reimbursement for jury service to the compensation to
     victims of crime fund (fund).
     
     (b)  Requires the county treasurer to send all donations
       made under this section to the state treasurer, as
       prescribed by the attorney general, for deposit to the
       credit of the fund.
       
SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 1995.
           Makes application of this Act prospective beginning
January 1, 1996.
     SECTION 3.     Requires the attorney general to adopt rules consistent
with this Act prescribing procedures to be followed by the county
treasurers and the state treasurer in collecting donations from
jurors under Section 61.003, Government Code, no later than
December 1, 1995.

SECTION 4. Emergency clause.