| 1 | 1 | | 81R2644 KEL-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Edwards, Pierson, Moody, Kent, H.B. No. 3207 |
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| 3 | 3 | | Turner of Harris |
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| 6 | 6 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 7 | 7 | | AN ACT |
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| 8 | 8 | | relating to the administration of the compensation to victims of |
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| 9 | 9 | | crime fund and the compensation to victims of crime auxiliary fund. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Article 56.54, Code of Criminal Procedure, is |
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| 12 | 12 | | amended by adding Subsection (m) to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | (m) Not later than September 15 of each year, the attorney |
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| 14 | 14 | | general, after consulting with the comptroller, shall certify the |
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| 15 | 15 | | amount of money remaining in the compensation to victims of crime |
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| 16 | 16 | | auxiliary fund at the end of the preceding state fiscal year. If |
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| 17 | 17 | | the amount remaining in the fund exceeds $5 million, as soon as |
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| 18 | 18 | | practicable after the date of certification, the attorney general |
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| 19 | 19 | | may transfer from that excess amount in the compensation to victims |
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| 20 | 20 | | of crime auxiliary fund to the compensation to victims of crime fund |
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| 21 | 21 | | an amount that is not more than 50 percent of the excess amount in |
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| 22 | 22 | | the auxiliary fund, to be used only for the purpose of making |
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| 23 | 23 | | compensation payments during the fiscal year in which the amount is |
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| 24 | 24 | | transferred. |
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| 25 | 25 | | SECTION 2. Article 56.541(b), Code of Criminal Procedure, |
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| 26 | 26 | | is amended to read as follows: |
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| 27 | 27 | | (b) At the time the attorney general certifies the estimates |
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| 28 | 28 | | made under Subsection (a), the attorney general shall also certify |
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| 29 | 29 | | for the next state fiscal biennium the amount of excess money in the |
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| 30 | 30 | | compensation to victims of crime fund available for the purposes of |
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| 31 | 31 | | Subsection (c), calculated by multiplying [subtracting] the amount |
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| 32 | 32 | | estimated under Subsection (a)(2) by 105 percent, and subtracting |
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| 33 | 33 | | that product from the sum of the amounts estimated under |
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| 34 | 34 | | Subsections (a)(1) and (a)(3). |
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| 35 | 35 | | SECTION 3. The attorney general may not transfer money |
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| 36 | 36 | | under Article 56.54(m), Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by |
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| 37 | 37 | | this Act, before the 2011 state fiscal year. |
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| 38 | 38 | | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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