Bill Text: TX SB1925 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the dedication of revenue received from certain court costs to the truancy prevention and diversion fund.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-26 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1925 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1925-Comm_Sub.html
By: West | S.B. No. 1925 | |
(Turner of Harris) | ||
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relating to the dedication of revenue received from certain court | ||
costs to the truancy prevention and diversion fund. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Articles 102.015(a) and (g), Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure, as added by Chapter 1213 (S.B. 1419), Acts of the 83rd | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, are reenacted to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a) The truancy prevention and diversion fund is a dedicated | ||
account in the general revenue fund. | ||
(g) The comptroller shall deposit the funds received under | ||
this article to the credit of a dedicated account in the general | ||
revenue fund to be known as the truancy prevention and diversion | ||
fund. The legislature may appropriate money from the account only | ||
to the criminal justice division of the governor's office for | ||
distribution to local governmental entities for truancy prevention | ||
and intervention services. | ||
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Chapter 839 (H.B. 6), Acts of | ||
the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, money dedicated by | ||
Article 102.015(g), Code of Criminal Procedure, as added by Chapter | ||
1213 (S.B. 1419), Acts of the 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, | ||
2013, to the truancy prevention and diversion fund established by | ||
Article 102.015, Code of Criminal Procedure, is rededicated by this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |