76R11330 GWK-F                           
         By Gallego                                            H.B. No. 3255
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3255:
         By Nixon                                          C.S.H.B. No. 3255
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to compensation to certain victims of domestic violence
 1-3     from the compensation to victims of crime fund.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Article 56.32(9), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7                 (9)  "Pecuniary loss" means the amount of expense
 1-8     reasonably and necessarily incurred as a result of personal injury
 1-9     or death for:
1-10                       (A)  medical, hospital, nursing, or psychiatric
1-11     care or counseling, or physical therapy;
1-12                       (B)  actual loss of past earnings and anticipated
1-13     loss of future earnings and necessary travel expenses because of:
1-14                             (i)  a disability resulting from the
1-15     personal injury;
1-16                             (ii)  the receipt of medically indicated
1-17     services related to the disability resulting from the personal
1-18     injury; or
1-19                             (iii)  participation in or attendance at
1-20     investigative, prosecutorial, or judicial processes related to the
1-21     criminally injurious conduct and participation in or attendance at
1-22     any postconviction or postadjudication proceeding relating to
1-23     criminally injurious conduct;
1-24                       (C)  care of a child or dependent;
 2-1                       (D)  funeral and burial expenses;
 2-2                       (E)  loss of support to a dependent, consistent
 2-3     with Article 56.41(b)(5);
 2-4                       (F)  reasonable and necessary costs of cleaning
 2-5     the crime scene; [and]
 2-6                       (G)  reasonable replacement costs for clothing,
 2-7     bedding, or property of the victim seized as evidence or rendered
 2-8     unusable as a result of the criminal investigation; and
 2-9                       (H)  reasonable and necessary costs, as provided
2-10     by Article 56.42(d), incurred by a victim of domestic violence for
2-11     relocation and housing rental assistance payments.
2-12           SECTION 2.  Article 56.42, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
2-13     amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
2-14           (d)  A claimant who is a victim of domestic violence may
2-15     receive a onetime-only assistance payment in an amount not to
2-16     exceed:
2-17                 (1)  $2,000 to be used for relocation expenses,
2-18     including expenses for rental deposit, utility connections,
2-19     expenses relating to the moving of belongings, motor vehicle
2-20     mileage expenses, and for out-of-state moves, transportation,
2-21     lodging, and meals; and
2-22                 (2)  $1,800 to be used for housing rental expenses.
2-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 3-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 3-2     passage, and it is so enacted.