Bill Text: TX HB176 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to equalizing compensation for certain wrongfully imprisoned persons.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-20 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB176 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB176-Introduced.html
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| By: Anchia | H.B. No. 176 | |
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| relating to equalizing compensation for certain wrongfully | ||
| imprisoned persons. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 103, Civil Practice and | ||
| Remedies Code, is amended by adding Section 103.0521 to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 103.0521. EQUALIZING COMPENSATION. (a) | ||
| Notwithstanding Section 103.003, a person who received | ||
| compensation under this chapter before September 1, 2009, is | ||
| entitled to equalizing compensation as provided by Subsection (b). | ||
| (b) A person entitled to receive equalizing compensation | ||
| under Subsection (a) shall receive an amount based on a present | ||
| value sum equal to the amount the person would receive under | ||
| Sections 103.052(a) and (b), if the person were to receive | ||
| compensation under those subsections on September 1, 2009, less the | ||
| total amount of money received by the person under Section 103.052 | ||
| before September 1, 2009. | ||
| (c) A person seeking equalizing compensation under this | ||
| section must file an application with the comptroller for | ||
| equalizing compensation not later than September 1, 2020. The | ||
| comptroller shall make payments to a claimant under this section | ||
| not later than the 30th day after the date the comptroller | ||
| determines the claimant is eligible to receive compensation under | ||
| this section. | ||
| (d) This section expires September 1, 2021. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect December 1, 2017. | ||
