1-1 By: Jones of Dallas (Senate Sponsor - West) H.B. No. 3209
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
1-3 May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
1-4 Justice; May 14, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: West
1-7 Amend House Bill 3209, in SECTION 1 of the bill, amending
1-8 Section 414.010, Government Code, between "apprehension" and
1-9 "adjudication" by inserting the word "and" and by striking ", and
1-10 confinement" on page 1, line 41, engrossed version and inserting
1-11 "." in lieu thereof.
1-12 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-13 AN ACT
1-14 relating to the purposes for which money received by crime stoppers
1-15 organizations may be used.
1-16 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-17 SECTION 1. Section 414.010, Government Code, is amended by
1-18 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
1-19 follows:
1-20 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a [A] crime
1-21 stoppers organization certified by the council to receive money in
1-22 the form of payments from defendants placed on community
1-23 supervision under Article 42.12, Code of Criminal Procedure, or
1-24 money in the form of repayments of rewards under Articles 37.073
1-25 and 42.152, Code of Criminal Procedure, may use not more than 10
1-26 percent of the money annually received to pay costs incurred in
1-27 administering the organization and shall use the remainder of the
1-28 money, including any interest earned on the money, only to reward
1-29 persons who report information concerning criminal activity. Not
1-30 later than January 31 of each year, a crime stoppers organization
1-31 that receives or expends money under this section shall file a
1-32 detailed report with the council.
1-33 (d) If the amount of funds received by a crime stoppers
1-34 organization under this section exceeds three times the amount of
1-35 funds that the organization uses to pay rewards during a fiscal
1-36 year based on the average amount of funds used to pay rewards
1-37 during each of the preceding three fiscal years, the organization
1-38 may deposit the excess amount of funds in a separate
1-39 interest-bearing account to be used by the organization for law
1-40 enforcement purposes relating to crime stoppers or juvenile
1-41 justice, including intervention, apprehension, adjudication, and
1-42 confinement. An organization that deposits excess funds in an
1-43 account as provided by this subsection may use any interest earned
1-44 on the funds to pay costs incurred in administering the
1-45 organization.
1-46 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-47 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-48 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-49 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-50 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-51 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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