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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3324 was passed by the House on May
         12, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3324 was passed by the Senate on May
         26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor