By De La Garza, Romo                                   H.B. No. 429
       74R3035 GWK-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the use of proceeds derived from criminal asset
    1-3  forfeiture for gang suppression programs.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Article 59.06, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
    1-7        (j)  As an exception to Subdivisions (1)-(3) of Subsection
    1-8  (c) of this article, the attorney representing the state or the
    1-9  head of the law enforcement agency shall, on the request of the
   1-10  governing body of a school district located wholly or partly in the
   1-11  jurisdiction of the attorney or agency, contribute funds from the
   1-12  special funds established under those subdivisions to the school
   1-13  district for use by the district in gang suppression programs.  The
   1-14  total amount contributed to all school districts located in the
   1-15  jurisdiction of the attorney or agency may not exceed 25 percent of
   1-16  the gross amount credited to the attorney's or agency's fund.  The
   1-17  attorney or the agency shall distribute the funds on the basis of
   1-18  enrollment if more than one school district requests funds.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
   1-20  to property or proceeds distributed to a law enforcement agency or
   1-21  the attorney representing the state on or after the effective date
   1-22  of this Act.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-4  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-5  passage, and it is so enacted.