SRC-JBJ H.B. 805 77(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 805
77R3994 ATP-FBy: Bonnen (Brown, J. E. "Buster")
Criminal Justice
5/3/2001
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

The crime stoppers program is a valuable tool for law enforcement, but such
an organization is prohibited from expending more than 10 percent of its
annual income on administrative costs.  H.B. 805 increases from 10 to 20
percent of the organization's annual payment receipts which may be expended
for administrative costs by a crime stoppers organization.  

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a
state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 414.010(a), Government Code, to authorize
certain crime stoppers organizations to receive money in the form of
payments from certain defendants, or money in the form of certain
repayments of rewards, except as provided by Subsection (d), to use not
more than 20, rather than 10, percent of the money annually received to pay
costs incurred in administering the organization. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 2001.