By Bivins                                              S.B. No. 116
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the disposition of the fines collected from persons
 1-3     arrested or issued citations for certain offenses by a school
 1-4     district peace officer.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Chapter 45, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
 1-7     amended by adding Article 45.57 to read as follows:
 1-8           Art. 45.57.  DISPOSITION OF FINES COLLECTED FROM PERSONS
 1-9     ARRESTED OR ISSUED CITATIONS BY SCHOOL DISTRICT PEACE OFFICER.  (a)
1-10     This article applies only to the fine imposed on a person who:
1-11                 (1)  is convicted of an offense that is punishable as a
1-12     Class C misdemeanor and that occurs:
1-13                       (A)  on the property of a school district; or
1-14                       (B)  at the location of a function, event, or
1-15     activity sponsored by a school district; and
1-16                 (2)  was arrested or was issued a citation for the
1-17     offense by a school district peace officer.
1-18           (b)  The officer collecting the fine from the person shall
1-19     remit an amount equal to 50 percent of the fine to the school
1-20     district that employed the school district peace officer who
1-21     arrested or issued the citation to the person.
1-22           (c)  To the extent of any conflict, this article prevails
1-23     over Articles 45.06 and 103.004.
1-24           (d)  In this article:
 2-1                 (1)  "School district" means a school district
 2-2     authorized by Section 37.081, Education Code, to commission school
 2-3     district peace officers.
 2-4                 (2)  "School district peace officer" means a peace
 2-5     officer commissioned under Section 37.081, Education Code.
 2-6           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.  The
 2-7     change in law made by this Act applies only to the disposition of a
 2-8     fine that a judge or a justice of the peace imposes on or after
 2-9     September 1, 1999.  The disposition of a fine that a judge or a
2-10     justice of the peace imposed before September 1, 1999, is covered
2-11     by the law in effect when the fine was imposed, and the former law
2-12     is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.