1-1     By:  Ratliff                                          S.B. No. 1734
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     April 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the limit on amounts that may be awarded for pecuniary
 1-9     loss to certain applicants under the Crime Victims' Compensation
1-10     Act.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding Section 2, Chapter 1434, Acts of
1-13     the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, Subsection (a),
1-14     Article 56.42, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by that Act,
1-15     applies to an application for compensation for criminally injurious
1-16     conduct occurring before the effective date of that Act if the
1-17     application was filed:
1-18                 (1)  by or on behalf of a dependent of a victim who
1-19     died as a result of the criminally injurious conduct; and
1-20                 (2)  in a timely manner and was approved by the
1-21     attorney general before the effective date of this Act.
1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-27     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-28     passage, and it is so enacted.
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