By: Ogden  S.B. No. 563
         (In the Senate - Filed February 9, 2007; February 26, 2007,
  read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
  March 14, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
  Nays 0; March 14, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to assistance by the attorney general in the prosecution
  of certain offenses involving the unlawful appropriation or
  misapplication of state property.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (j), Section 31.03, Penal Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (j)  With the consent of the appropriate local county or
  district attorney, the attorney general has concurrent
  jurisdiction with that consenting local prosecutor to prosecute an
  offense under this section that involves the state Medicaid program
  or the unlawful appropriation of state property.
         SECTION 2.  Subsection (e), Section 32.45, Penal Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (e)  With the consent of the appropriate local county or
  district attorney, the attorney general has concurrent
  jurisdiction with that consenting local prosecutor to prosecute an
  offense under this section that involves the state Medicaid program
  or the misapplication of state property.
         SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
  An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
  covered by the law in effect when the offense was committed, and the
  former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of
  this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of
  this Act if any element of the offense was committed before that
  date.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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