By Jones of Dallas                                    H.B. No. 3209
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the purposes for which money received by certain crime
 1-3     stoppers organizations may be used.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 414.010(a), Government Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  A crime stoppers organization certified by the council
 1-8     to receive money in the form of payments from defendants placed on
 1-9     community supervision under Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
1-10     Procedure, or money in the form of repayments of rewards under
1-11     Articles 37.073 and 42.152, Code of Criminal Procedure, may use not
1-12     more than 10 percent of the money annually received to pay costs
1-13     incurred in administering the organization and shall use the
1-14     remainder of the money, including any interest earned on the money,
1-15     only to reward persons who report information concerning criminal
1-16     activity and, if the organization is operated on a local level in a
1-17     county with a population of more than 1,800,000, to fund crime
1-18     prevention projects, programs, or services.  Not later than January
1-19     31 of each year, a crime stoppers organization that receives or
1-20     expends money  under this section shall file a detailed report with
1-21     the council.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.