1-1 By: Bivins S.B. No. 116 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 4, 1999; January 28, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education; 1-4 March 4, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, 1-5 Nays 1; March 4, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the disposition of the fines collected from persons 1-9 arrested or issued citations for certain offenses by a school 1-10 district peace officer. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Chapter 45, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-13 amended by adding Article 45.57 to read as follows: 1-14 Art. 45.57. DISPOSITION OF FINES COLLECTED FROM PERSONS 1-15 ARRESTED OR ISSUED CITATIONS BY SCHOOL DISTRICT PEACE OFFICER. 1-16 (a) This article applies only to the fine imposed on a person who: 1-17 (1) is convicted of an offense that is punishable as a 1-18 Class C misdemeanor and that occurs: 1-19 (A) on the property of a school district; or 1-20 (B) at the location of a function, event, or 1-21 activity sponsored by a school district; and 1-22 (2) was arrested or was issued a citation for the 1-23 offense by a school district peace officer. 1-24 (b) The officer collecting the fine from the person shall 1-25 remit an amount equal to 50 percent of the fine to the school 1-26 district that employed the school district peace officer who 1-27 arrested or issued the citation to the person. 1-28 (c) To the extent of any conflict, this article prevails 1-29 over Articles 45.06 and 103.004. 1-30 (d) In this article: 1-31 (1) "School district" means a school district 1-32 authorized by Section 37.081, Education Code, to commission school 1-33 district peace officers. 1-34 (2) "School district peace officer" means a peace 1-35 officer commissioned under Section 37.081, Education Code. 1-36 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. The 1-37 change in law made by this Act applies only to the disposition of a 1-38 fine that a judge or a justice of the peace imposes on or after 1-39 September 1, 1999. The disposition of a fine that a judge or a 1-40 justice of the peace imposed before September 1, 1999, is covered 1-41 by the law in effect when the fine was imposed, and the former law 1-42 is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-43 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-44 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-45 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-46 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-47 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-48 * * * * *