By:  Lindsay, Gallegos                                S.B. No. 1413
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the limit on compensation paid by the state to certain
 1-3     crime victims.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Article 56.42, Code of Criminal
 1-6     Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  Except as otherwise provided by this article, awards
 1-8     payable to a victim and all other claimants sustaining pecuniary
 1-9     loss because of injury or death of that victim may not exceed
1-10     $100,000 [$50,000] in the aggregate.
1-11           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-12     to a claim for compensation from the compensation to victims of
1-13     crime fund filed on or after the effective date of this Act.  A
1-14     claim for compensation filed before the effective date of this Act
1-15     is covered by the law in effect when the claim was filed, and the
1-16     former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-17           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.