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.