By Gallego, Danburg H.B. No. 3324 76R13744 E A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the provision of certain services to claimants under 1-3 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 56.541(e), Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (e) The attorney general may use money appropriated from the 1-8 compensation to victims of crime fund for grants or contracts 1-9 supporting victim-related services or assistance, including support 1-10 for private Texas nonprofit corporations that provide 1-11 victim-related civil legal services directly to victims, immediate 1-12 family members of victims, or claimants. A grant supporting 1-13 victim-related services or assistance is governed by Chapter 783, 1-14 Government Code. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.