By Shields H.B. No. 3699 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the distribution of federal local law enforcement block 1-3 grants; granting rulemaking authority. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 402, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 402.029 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 402.029. Notwithstanding any other law, the Attorney 1-8 General may, pursuant to Section 104 (b) (9) of the federal Local 1-9 Law Enforcement Block Grant Act of 1995, certify by rule that a 1-10 unit of local government under the jurisdiction of the State bears 1-11 more than 50 percent of the costs of prosecution or incarceration 1-12 that arise with respect to Part I violent crimes reported by a 1-13 specified geographically constitutent unit of local government. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.