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Amend CSHB 13 (Senate committee printing) by inserting the 
following appropriately number SECTION to the bill:
	SECTION 1.  Article 59.06(h), Code of Criminal Procedure, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(h)  As a specific exception to the requirement of 
Subdivisions (1)-(3) of Subsection (c) of this article that the 
funds described by those subdivisions be used only for the official 
purposes of the attorney representing the state or for law 
enforcement purposes, on agreement between the attorney 
representing the state or the head of a law enforcement agency and 
the governing body of a political subdivision, the attorney 
representing the state or the head of the law enforcement agency may
[shall] comply with the request of the governing body to deposit not 
more than a total of 10 percent of the gross amount credited to the 
attorney's or agency's fund into the treasury of the political 
subdivision.  The governing body of the political subdivision 
shall, by ordinance, order, or resolution, use funds received under 
this subsection for:
		(1)  nonprofit programs for the prevention of drug 
abuse;                   
		(2)  nonprofit chemical dependency treatment 
facilities licensed under Chapter 464, Health and Safety Code;
		(3)  nonprofit drug and alcohol rehabilitation or 
prevention programs administered or staffed by professionals 
designated as qualified and credentialed by the Texas Commission on 
Alcohol and Drug Abuse;  or
		(4)  financial assistance as described by Subsection 
(o).                   
	SECTION 2.  Article 59.06, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 
amended by adding Subsections (r), (s), and (t) to read as follows:
	(r)  As a specific exception to the requirement of 
Subdivisions (1)-(3) of Subsection (c) that the funds described by 
those subdivisions be used only for the official purposes of the 
attorney representing the state or for law enforcement purposes, in 
any county that implements or operates a drug court program under 
Chapter 469, Health and Safety Code, the attorney representing the 
state shall deposit 10 percent of the gross amount credited to the 
attorney's fund into the county treasury.  The commissioners court 
shall use the funds received under this subsection to implement or 
operate the drug court program in the county.
	(s)  The state auditor may conduct audits and investigations 
related to the seizure, forfeiture, receipt, and specific 
expenditure of all proceeds and property under this article in 
accordance with this article and Chapter 321, Government Code.
	(t)  The state auditor is entitled to access any book, 
account, voucher, confidential or nonconfidential report, or other 
record of information, including electronic data, maintained by a 
county auditor under this article, except that:
		(1)  if the release of the applicable information is 
restricted under federal law, the state auditor may access the 
information only with the approval of the appropriate federal 
administrative agency; and
		(2)  the state auditor may access only for purposes of 
performing an audit any copyrighted or restricted information 
obtained by the comptroller under subscription agreements and used 
in the preparation of the comptroller's economic estimates.
	SECTION 3.  This Act take effect September 1, 2007.