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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