By Gutierrez H.B. No. 2529
75R3514 GWK-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the ability of a peace officer to apply for
1-3 compensation under the Crime Victims' Compensation Act.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 56.32(c), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) In this subchapter "victim" does not include:
1-8 (1) [a peace officer;]
1-9 [(2)] a firefighter; or
1-10 (2) [(3)] another individual, other than a peace
1-11 officer, whose employment includes the duty to protect the public
1-12 while acting in the course and scope of the individual's
1-13 employment.
1-14 SECTION 2. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies
1-15 only to a claim for compensation for criminally injurious conduct
1-16 occurring on or after the effective date of this Act. For purposes
1-17 of this section, conduct occurs before the effective date of this
1-18 Act if any element of the offense that is included in the
1-19 criminally injurious conduct occurs before the effective date.
1-20 (b) An application for compensation based on criminally
1-21 injurious conduct occurring before the effective date of this Act
1-22 is covered by the law in effect when the offense that is included
1-23 in the criminally injurious conduct was committed, and the former
1-24 law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-1 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-2 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.