By: Ratliff S.B. No. 1734 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the limit on amounts that may be awarded for pecuniary 1-2 loss to certain applicants under the Crime Victims' Compensation 1-3 Act. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Notwithstanding Section 2, Chapter 1434, Acts of 1-6 the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, Subsection (a), 1-7 Article 56.42, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by that Act, 1-8 applies to an application for compensation for criminally injurious 1-9 conduct occurring before the effective date of that Act if the 1-10 application was filed: 1-11 (1) by or on behalf of a dependent of a victim who 1-12 died as a result of the criminally injurious conduct; and 1-13 (2) in a timely manner and was approved by the 1-14 attorney general before the effective date of this Act. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.