1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the purposes for which money received by crime stoppers
 1-3     organizations may be used.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 414.010, Government Code, is amended by
 1-6     amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
 1-7     follows:
 1-8           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (d), a [A] crime
 1-9     stoppers organization certified by the council to receive money in
1-10     the form of payments from defendants placed on community
1-11     supervision under Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, or
1-12     money in the form of repayments of rewards under  Articles 37.073
1-13     and 42.152, Code of Criminal Procedure, may use not more than 10
1-14     percent of the money annually received to pay costs incurred in
1-15     administering the organization and shall use the remainder of the
1-16     money, including any interest earned on the money, only to reward
1-17     persons who report information concerning criminal activity.  Not
1-18     later than January 31 of each year, a crime stoppers organization
1-19     that receives or expends money  under this section shall file a
1-20     detailed report with the council.
1-21           (d)  If the amount of funds received by a crime stoppers
1-22     organization under this section exceeds three times the amount of
1-23     funds that the organization uses to pay rewards during a fiscal
1-24     year based on the average amount of funds used to pay rewards
 2-1     during each of the preceding three fiscal years, the organization
 2-2     may deposit the excess amount of funds in a separate
 2-3     interest-bearing account to be used by the organization for law
 2-4     enforcement purposes relating to crime stoppers or juvenile
 2-5     justice, including intervention, apprehension, and adjudication.
 2-6     An organization that deposits excess funds in an account as
 2-7     provided by this subsection may use any interest earned on the
 2-8     funds to pay costs incurred in administering the organization.
 2-9           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-10           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3209 was passed by the House on May
         4, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
         Senate amendments to H.B. No. 3209 on May 27, 1999, by a non-record
         vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3209 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 24, 1999, by a viva-voce vote.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor