76R11528 JMC-D
By Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 3209
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3209:
By Turner of Coleman C.S.H.B. No. 3209
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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, adjudication, and
2-6 confinement. An organization that deposits excess funds in an
2-7 account as provided by this subsection may use any interest earned
2-8 on the funds to pay costs incurred in administering the
2-9 organization.
2-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.