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AN ACT
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relating to revenue received from the provision of pay telephone |
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service to inmates confined in facilities operated by the Texas |
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Department of Criminal Justice. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 495.025, Government |
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Code, as added by Chapter 100 (S.B. 1580), Acts of the 80th |
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Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, is reenacted to read as |
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follows: |
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(c) The department shall transfer 50 percent of all |
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commissions paid to the department by a vendor under this section to |
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the compensation to victims of crime fund established by Subchapter |
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B, Chapter 56, Code of Criminal Procedure, and the other 50 percent |
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to the credit of the undedicated portion of the general revenue |
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fund, except that the department shall transfer the first $10 |
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million of the commissions collected in any given year under a |
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contract awarded under this section to the compensation to victims |
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of crime fund established by Subchapter B, Chapter 56, Code of |
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Criminal Procedure. This section does not reduce any |
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appropriation to the department. |
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SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Chapter 1418 (H.B. 3107), Acts |
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of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, money dedicated by |
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Subsection (c), Section 495.025, Government Code, as added by |
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Chapter 100 (S.B. 1580), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular |
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Session, 2007, to the compensation to victims of crime fund |
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established by Subchapter B, Chapter 56, Code of Criminal |
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Procedure, is rededicated by this Act. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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President of the Senate |
Speaker of the House |
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I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1844 passed the Senate on |
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May 6, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that the |
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Senate concurred in House amendment on May 30, 2009, by the |
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following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
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Secretary of the Senate |
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I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1844 passed the House, with |
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amendment, on May 26, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 145, |
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Nays 0, one present not voting. |
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Chief Clerk of the House |
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Approved: |
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Governor |