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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