By Williamson                                          H.B. No. 809
       74R2683 PEP-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the purposes for which funds received by local crime
    1-3  stoppers programs may be used.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 414.010, Government Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 414.010.  PAYMENT FROM DEFENDANT ON COMMUNITY
    1-8  SUPERVISION.  A local crime stoppers program certified by the
    1-9  council to receive money in the form of payments from defendants
   1-10  placed on community supervision <that receives  a payment from a
   1-11  probationer> under <Section 6(h),> Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
   1-12  Procedure, may use not more than 10 percent of the money annually
   1-13  received to pay costs incurred in administering the program and
   1-14  must use the remainder of the money only to reward persons who
   1-15  report <may not use the payment for any purpose other than the
   1-16  payment of a reward to a person who reports> information concerning
   1-17  criminal activity.  Not later than January 15 of each year, a local
   1-18  crime stoppers program that receives or expends money under this
   1-19  section shall file a detailed report with the community justice
   1-20  assistance division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
   1-21  <Texas Adult Probation Commission> that accounts for all money
   1-22  received and expended under this section during the preceding year.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  Section 414.011(d), Government Code, is amended
   1-24  to read as follows:
    2-1        (d)  A local crime stoppers program certified by the council
    2-2  to receive repayments under this section may use not more than 10
    2-3  percent of that money annually received to pay costs incurred in
    2-4  administering the program and must use the remainder of that money
    2-5  only to reward <shall use that money for the sole purpose of
    2-6  rewards to> persons who report information on criminal activity
    2-7  <only if> that <information> leads to a defendant being indicted
    2-8  for or charged by information with a felony offense.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-10        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.