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.