Bill Text: TX HB402 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the use of certain funds derived from criminal asset forfeiture to provide services to domestic victims of trafficking.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-07 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB402 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB402-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the use of certain funds derived from criminal asset forfeiture to provide services to domestic victims of trafficking.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-07 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB402 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB402-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hernandez (Senate Sponsor - Alvarado) | H.B. No. 402 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 13, 2021; | ||
April 14, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Criminal Justice; May 6, 2021, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 6, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the use of certain funds derived from criminal asset | ||
forfeiture to provide services to domestic victims of trafficking. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 59.06, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (u) to read as follows: | ||
(u) As a specific exception to Subsection (c) that the funds | ||
described by that subsection be used only for the official purposes | ||
of the attorney representing the state or for law enforcement | ||
purposes, to cover the costs of a contract with a municipal or | ||
county program to provide services to domestic victims of | ||
trafficking, the attorney representing the state or the head of a | ||
law enforcement agency, as applicable, may use any portion of the | ||
gross amount credited to the attorney's or agency's special fund | ||
under Subsection (c) from the forfeiture of contraband that: | ||
(1) is used in the commission of, or used to facilitate | ||
or intended to be used to facilitate the commission of, an offense | ||
under Chapter 20A, Penal Code; or | ||
(2) consists of proceeds gained from the commission | ||
of, or property acquired with proceeds gained from the commission | ||
of, an offense under Chapter 20A, Penal Code. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act in amending | ||
Article 59.06, Code of Criminal Procedure, applies to the | ||
disposition or use, on or after the effective date of this Act, of | ||
proceeds or property received by a law enforcement agency or | ||
attorney representing the state under Chapter 59, Code of Criminal | ||
Procedure, regardless of whether the receipt of the proceeds or | ||
property occurred before, on, or after the effective date of this | ||
Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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