By Garcia H.B. No. 1017 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to making one-time, emergency appropriations to Dallas 1-3 County to partially defray the costs of detaining and prosecuting 1-4 certain accused individuals. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. SECURITY AND DETENTION COSTS. There is hereby 1-7 appropriated to Dallas County out of the General Revenue Fund, or 1-8 any other fund which--in the discretion of the Governor--would be 1-9 more appropriate, or any combinations thereof, the sum of 1-10 $750,000.00 for the security and detention costs associated with 1-11 the six (6) surviving escaped convicts--known colloquially as the 1-12 "Texas Seven" or as the "Connally Seven"-- individually identified 1-13 as Joseph C. Garcia; Randy Ethan Halprin; Patrick Henry Murphy, 1-14 Jr.; Donald Keith Newbury; George Rivas; and Michael Anthony 1-15 Rodriguez; all six (6) of whom, together with the deceased Larry 1-16 James Harper, absconded from the custody of the Texas Department of 1-17 Criminal Justice, Connally Unit, in Kenedy, Texas, on Wednesday, 1-18 December 13, 2000. 1-19 SECTION 2. TRIAL AND APPELLATE COSTS. There is hereby 1-20 appropriated to Dallas County out of the General Revenue Fund, or 1-21 any other fund which--in the discretion of the Governor--would be 1-22 more appropriate, or any combinations thereof, the sum of 2-1 $500,000.00 (half of the estimated $1,000,000.00 for the trial, and 2-2 any subsequent appellate, costs incurred by Dallas County in the 2-3 prosecution of the aforementioned Messrs. Garcia, Halprin, Murphy, 2-4 Newbury, Rivas, and Rodriguez for any and all criminal offenses for 2-5 which any or all of them may be charged. 2-6 SECTION 3. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation and 2-7 the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.