1-1     By:  Gallego, Danburg (Senate Sponsor - Carona)       H.B. No. 3324
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 1999;
 1-3     May 13, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
 1-4     Justice; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the provision of certain services to claimants under
 1-9     the compensation to victims of crime fund.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Article 56.541(e), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-12     amended to read as follows:
1-13           (e)  The attorney general may use money appropriated from the
1-14     compensation to victims of crime fund for grants or contracts
1-15     supporting victim-related services or assistance, including support
1-16     for private Texas nonprofit corporations that provide
1-17     victim-related civil legal services directly to victims, immediate
1-18     family members of victims, or claimants.  A grant supporting
1-19     victim-related services or assistance is governed by Chapter 783,
1-20     Government Code.
1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-27     passage, and it is so enacted.
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