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.
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