By Patterson S.B. No. 918 75R7053 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to funding the costs of apprehending certain inmates for 1-3 whom warrants are issued by the Board of Pardons and Paroles or the 1-4 pardons and paroles division of the Texas Department of Criminal 1-5 Justice. 1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-7 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 411, Government Code, is 1-8 amended by adding Section 411.0097 to read as follows: 1-9 Sec. 411.0097. FUGITIVE APPREHENSION ACCOUNT. The fugitive 1-10 apprehension account is a special account in the general revenue 1-11 fund. The legislature may appropriate funds in the account only 1-12 for the purpose of paying for the cost to the department of 1-13 apprehending individuals for whom warrants have been issued under 1-14 Section 13, Article 42.18, Code of Criminal Procedure. This 1-15 section expires September 1, 1999. 1-16 SECTION 2. Article 56.54, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-17 amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-18 (h) Not later than September 1, 1997, the comptroller shall 1-19 determine the amount of money credited on that date to the 1-20 compensation to victims of crime fund and to the compensation to 1-21 victims of crime auxiliary fund and shall also estimate the amount 1-22 of money that will be subsequently credited to those funds during 1-23 the biennium ending August 31, 1999. The comptroller shall 1-24 determine whether the amount of money credited to the funds and the 2-1 amount of money estimated to be subsequently credited to the funds 2-2 during the biennium exceed the amount of money necessary during the 2-3 biennium to pay compensation to claimants or victims under this 2-4 subchapter and other expenses necessary in administering this 2-5 subchapter. If the comptroller determines that an excess amount of 2-6 money exists in the accounts or will exist in the accounts, the 2-7 comptroller shall transfer 30 percent of the excess amount from the 2-8 compensation to victims of crime account to the fugitive 2-9 apprehension account on September 1, 1997, if the money exists in 2-10 the accounts on that date or, if the money does not exist in the 2-11 accounts on that date, as the excess amount becomes available. 2-12 This subsection expires September 1, 1999. 2-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-19 passage, and it is so enacted.