By Barrientos                                         S.B. No. 1318
       74R4733 GWK-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the operation of the sexual assault program fund.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 44.0061, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended by amending Subsection (b) and by adding Subsection (d) to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  The fund consists of fees collected under Section 19
    1-8  <22>(e), Article 42.12, and Section 8(p), Article 42.18, Code of
    1-9  Criminal Procedure.
   1-10        (d)  Sections 403.094 and 403.095, Government Code, do not
   1-11  apply to the sexual assault program fund.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  The sexual assault program fund is re-created as
   1-13  a special fund to be used for the purposes designated in Section
   1-14  44.0061, Health and Safety Code.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-16        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.