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.