HBA-SEB H.B. 88 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 88
By: Gutierrez
County Affairs
2/8/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Under current law, the commissioners court of a county may donate money to
a "crime stoppers organization" for use as rewards distributed by that
group, while members of certain crime prevention organizations cannot
accept such donations.  H.B. 88 allows the commissioners court of a county
to donate money to a crime prevention organization as well as a crime
stoppers organization for the purpose of administering crime prevention
programs.      

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 351.901, Local Government Code, as follows:

Sec. 351.901.  New title:  DONATION TO CERTAIN CRIME STOPPERS AND CRIME
PREVENTION ORGANIZATIONS.  Defines "crime prevention organization."
Specifies that crime stoppers or crime prevention organizations use
donations from the commissioners court of a county in order to meet the
goals outlined in Subsection (a), such as providing crime prevention and
education to the community, rather than simply for rewards.  Makes
conforming and nonsubstantive changes. 

SECTION 2.  Emergency clause.
                       Effective date:  upon passage.