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.