By Allen H.B. No. 2153
75R6162 JMC-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the priority given to certain victim compensation funds
1-3 by the Texas Youth Commission when apportioning wages earned by
1-4 certain children.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 61.123, Human Resources Code, is amended
1-7 to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 61.123. PAY AND DISTRIBUTION OF PAY. The commission
1-9 shall apportion wages earned by a child working under the
1-10 industries program in amounts determined at the discretion of the
1-11 commission, in the following priority:
1-12 (1) a person to whom the child has been ordered by a
1-13 court or to whom the child has agreed to pay restitution;
1-14 (2) a person to whom the child has been ordered by a
1-15 court to pay child support; [and]
1-16 (3) the compensation to victims of crime fund or the
1-17 compensation to victims of crime auxiliary fund; and
1-18 (4) the child's student account.
1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.