By: Van de Putte S.B. No. 1844

(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2009; March 20, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; May 1, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 1, 2009, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to revenue received from the provision of pay telephone service to inmates confined in facilities operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 495.025, Government Code, as added by Chapter 100 (S.B. 1580), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, is reenacted to read as follows:

(c) The department shall transfer 50 percent of all commissions paid to the department by a vendor under this section to the compensation to victims of crime fund established by Subchapter B, Chapter 56, Code of Criminal Procedure, and the other 50 percent to the credit of the undedicated portion of the general revenue fund, except that the department shall transfer the first $10 million of the commissions collected in any given year under a contract awarded under this section to the compensation to victims of crime fund established by Subchapter B, Chapter 56, Code of Criminal Procedure. This section does not reduce any appropriation to the department.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Chapter 1418 (H.B. 3107), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, money dedicated by Subsection (c), Section 495.025, Government Code, as added by Chapter 100 (S.B. 1580), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, to the compensation to victims of crime fund established by Subchapter B, Chapter 56, Code of Criminal Procedure, is rededicated by this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.

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