By Shapiro                                             S.B. No. 217
       74R2190 RJA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the operation of the compensation to victims of crime
    1-3  fund and the compensation to victims of crime auxiliary fund.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 56.54, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
    1-7        (h)  Sections 403.094 and 403.095, Government Code, do not
    1-8  apply to the compensation to victims of crime fund or the
    1-9  compensation to victims of crime auxiliary fund.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  The compensation to victims of crime fund and the
   1-11  compensation to victims of crime auxiliary fund are re-created as
   1-12  special funds to be used for the purposes designated in Subchapter
   1-13  B, Chapter 56, Code of Criminal Procedure.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-15        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.