By Yarbrough H.B. No. 1412 75R5147 JD-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the disposition of the fines collected from defendants 1-3 arrested for certain offenses by a school district peace officer. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 45, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended by adding Article 45.57 to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 45.57. DISPOSITION OF FINES COLLECTED FROM PERSONS 1-8 ARRESTED BY SCHOOL DISTRICT PEACE OFFICER. (a) This article 1-9 applies only to the fine imposed on a defendant who: 1-10 (1) is convicted of an offense punishable as a Class C 1-11 misdemeanor, other than an offense involving the parking or 1-12 operation of a motor vehicle, occurring: 1-13 (A) on the property of a school district; or 1-14 (B) at the location of a function, event, or 1-15 activity sponsored by a school district; and 1-16 (2) was arrested for the offense by a school district 1-17 peace officer. 1-18 (b) The officer collecting the fine from the defendant shall 1-19 remit an amount equal to 50 percent of the fine to the school 1-20 district that employed the school district peace officer who 1-21 arrested the defendant. 1-22 (c) If a school district has established a safety program, 1-23 money received by the district under this article may be used only 1-24 in furtherance of that program. 2-1 (d) To the extent of any conflict, this article prevails 2-2 over any other provision of this chapter. 2-3 (e) In this article: 2-4 (1) "School district" means a school district 2-5 authorized by Section 37.081, Education Code, to commission school 2-6 district peace officers. 2-7 (2) "School district peace officer" means a peace 2-8 officer commissioned under Section 37.081, Education Code. 2-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. The 2-10 change in law made by this Act applies only to the disposition of a 2-11 fine that a judge or a justice of the peace imposes on or after 2-12 September 1, 1997. The disposition of a fine that a judge or a 2-13 justice of the peace imposed before September 1, 1997, is covered 2-14 by the law in effect when the fine was imposed, and the former law 2-15 is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.