By Staples                                            H.B. No. 1946
         76R8031 GWK-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the payment of state aid to community supervision and
 1-3     corrections departments for the supervision of misdemeanants.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 509.011(a), Government Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  If the division determines that a department complies
 1-8     with division standards and if the department or judges managing
 1-9     the department have submitted a community justice plan under
1-10     Section 76.003 and the supporting information required by the
1-11     division and the division determines the plan and supporting
1-12     information are acceptable, the division shall prepare and submit
1-13     to the comptroller vouchers for payment to the department as
1-14     follows:
1-15                 (1)  for per capita funding, a per diem amount for each
1-16     felony defendant directly supervised by the department pursuant to
1-17     lawful authority;
1-18                 (2)  for per capita funding, a per diem amount for a
1-19     period not to exceed 273 [182] days for each defendant supervised
1-20     by the department pursuant to lawful authority, other than a felony
1-21     defendant; and
1-22                 (3)  for formula funding, an annual amount as computed
1-23     by multiplying a percentage determined by the allocation formula
1-24     established under Subsection (f) times the total amount provided in
 2-1     the General Appropriations Act for payments under this subdivision.
 2-2           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-3           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.