By Black H.B. No. 2246
74R6710 RJA-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the attorney general account and the attorney general
1-3 law enforcement account; making an appropriation.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 402.005, Government Code, as amended by
1-6 Chapters 380 and 761, Acts of the 73rd Legislature, Regular
1-7 Session, 1993, is amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 402.005. ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS, GRANTS, AND FORFEITED
1-9 ASSETS; CREATION OF SPECIAL ACCOUNTS <ACCOUNT>. (a) The attorney
1-10 general may not accept or use money offered by an individual, firm,
1-11 partnership, corporation, or association for investigating or
1-12 prosecuting a matter.
1-13 (b) The attorney general may accept gifts and grants on
1-14 behalf of the state for purposes related to duties performed by the
1-15 attorney general or to public educational opportunities, unless the
1-16 acceptance is prohibited under Subsection (a) or other law. Money
1-17 received under this subsection shall be deposited in the state
1-18 treasury to the credit of an account established in the general
1-19 revenue fund for the receipt of those funds.
1-20 (c) <(b)> The attorney general law enforcement account is
1-21 created as a dedicated account in the general revenue fund in the
1-22 state treasury. The account shall consist of law
1-23 enforcement-related gifts and grants, recovered criminal penalties,
1-24 recovered costs in criminal cases in which the attorney general is
2-1 involved, including investigative costs, witness fees, deposition
2-2 costs, and attorney's fees, and forfeited assets, and shall be
2-3 administered by the attorney general.
2-4 (d) <(c)> The attorney general may accept gifts and grants
2-5 on behalf of the state for purposes related to law enforcement
2-6 duties performed by the attorney general, unless the acceptance is
2-7 prohibited under Subsection (a) or other law. Money received
2-8 under this subsection shall be deposited in the law enforcement
2-9 account established pursuant to Subsection (c) <(b)> and may be
2-10 appropriated only for the purpose for which the money was given.
2-11 (e) Sections 403.094 and 403.095 do not apply to the
2-12 accounts established by this section. Any unexpended balance in a
2-13 fund created by this section at the end of a fiscal biennium
2-14 remains in the fund and shall be carried forward to the next
2-15 biennium.
2-16 SECTION 2. All money deposited to the credit of the funds
2-17 created under Section 402.005, Government Code, and all interest
2-18 from the deposit of those funds, are appropriated to the office of
2-19 the attorney general for the fiscal biennium ending August 31,
2-20 1997, for the purposes provided by Section 402.005, Government
2-21 Code.
2-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.