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.