By Hartnett                                            H.B. No. 357
       74R1669 PEP-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the forfeiture of money or a negotiable instrument
    1-3  found in proximity to contraband or to instrumentalities of an
    1-4  offense.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Article 59.05, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-7  amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
    1-8        (f)  The fact that money or any negotiable instrument was
    1-9  found in proximity to contraband or to instrumentalities of an
   1-10  offense gives rise to an inference that the money or instrument was
   1-11  the proceeds of contraband or was used or intended to be used to
   1-12  facilitate commission of the offense.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  (a)  The change in law made by this Act applies
   1-14  only to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this
   1-15  Act.  For purposes of this section, an offense is committed before
   1-16  the effective date of this Act if any element of the offense occurs
   1-17  before that date.
   1-18        (b)  An offense committed before the effective date of this
   1-19  Act is covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed,
   1-20  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-22        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.