78S40075 EMT-D

By:  Keel                                                         H.B. No. 28 



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to eliminating the compensation to victims of crime fund 
as a source of funding for the Crime Victims' Institute.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Article 56.54, Code of Criminal 
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
	(b)  Except as provided by Subsections (h), (i), (j), and (k) 
and Article 56.541, the compensation to victims of crime fund may be 
used only by the attorney general for the payment of compensation to 
claimants or victims under this subchapter.  For purposes of this 
subsection, compensation to claimants or victims includes money 
allocated from the fund [to the Crime Victims' Institute created by 
Section 96.65, Education Code, for the operation of the institute 
and] for [other] expenses in administering this subchapter.  [The 
institute shall use money allocated from the fund only for the 
purposes of Sections 96.65, 96.651, and 96.652, Education Code.]
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the 
legislative session.