By Gutierrez H.B. No. 88
76R1288 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to permitting a county to donate money to certain crime
1-3 prevention organizations.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 351.901, Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 351.901. DONATION TO CERTAIN CRIME STOPPERS AND CRIME
1-8 PREVENTION ORGANIZATIONS [ORGANIZATION]. (a) In this section:
1-9 (1) [,] "Crime [crime] stoppers organization" means a
1-10 private, nonprofit organization or a public organization that:
1-11 (A) is operated on a local or statewide level;
1-12 (B) [, that] accepts and expends donations for
1-13 rewards to persons who report to the organization information about
1-14 criminal activity;[,] and
1-15 (C) [that] forwards the information to the
1-16 appropriate law enforcement agency.
1-17 (2) "Crime prevention organization" means an
1-18 organization with an advisory council consisting of local law
1-19 enforcement officers and volunteers from the community that:
1-20 (A) is operated on a local or statewide level;
1-21 (B) identifies crime-related issues relevant to
1-22 a segment of society particularly prone to victimization, including
1-23 the elderly population; and
1-24 (C) provides assistance to the community in the
2-1 form of crime prevention and education and provides training for
2-2 law enforcement officers in dealing effectively with the segment of
2-3 society prone to victimization.
2-4 (b) The commissioners court of a county by contract may
2-5 donate money to one or more crime stoppers or crime prevention
2-6 organizations for expenditure by the organizations to meet the
2-7 goals identified in Subsection (a) [for rewards]. The total amount
2-8 of all donations made in a calendar year may not exceed $25,000.
2-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.