1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 346 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 27, 1995; January 30, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; 1-4 April 7, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 7, 1995, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 346 By: Brown 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to funds used to compensate victims of crime. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Chapter 61, Government Code, is amended by adding 1-13 Section 61.003 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 61.003. DONATION OF REIMBURSEMENT. (a) A person 1-15 responsible under Section 62.013 or 62.014 for summoning 1-16 prospective jurors to appear for jury service shall provide to each 1-17 prospective juror a form letter that when signed by the prospective 1-18 juror directs the county treasurer to donate all or part of the 1-19 prospective juror's reimbursement for jury service to the 1-20 compensation to victims of crime fund under Subchapter B, Chapter 1-21 56, Code of Criminal Procedure. 1-22 (b) The county treasurer shall send all donations made under 1-23 this section to the state treasurer, at the time and in the manner 1-24 prescribed by the attorney general, for deposit to the credit of 1-25 the compensation to victims of crime fund. 1-26 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and 1-27 applies only to an oral jury summons made or a written jury summons 1-28 sent on or after January 1, 1996. A jury summons made or sent 1-29 before January 1, 1996, is governed by the law as it existed 1-30 immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is 1-31 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-32 SECTION 3. Not later than December 1, 1995, the attorney 1-33 general shall adopt rules consistent with this Act prescribing 1-34 procedures to be followed by the county treasurers and the state 1-35 treasurer in collecting donations from jurors under Section 61.003, 1-36 Government Code, as added by this Act. 1-37 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-42 * * * * *