Bill Text: TX HB1805 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to abolishing a fee imposed on certain sexually oriented businesses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-16 - Referred to Ways & Means [HB1805 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1805-Introduced.html

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84R9289 DDT-F
By: Dutton H.B. No. 1805

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to abolishing a fee imposed on certain sexually oriented
businesses.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 420.008(b) and (c), Government Code,
are amended to read as follows:
(b) The fund consists of fees collected under:
(1) Section 19(e), Article 42.12, Code of Criminal
Procedure; and
(2) Section 508.189, Government Code[; and
[(3) Subchapter B, Chapter 102, Business & Commerce
Code, and deposited under Section 102.054].
(c) The legislature may appropriate money deposited to the
credit of the fund only to:
(1) the attorney general, for:
(A) sexual violence awareness and prevention
campaigns;
(B) grants to faith-based groups, independent
school districts, and community action organizations for programs
for the prevention of sexual assault and programs for victims of
human trafficking;
(C) grants for equipment for sexual assault nurse
examiner programs, to support the preceptorship of future sexual
assault nurse examiners, and for the continuing education of sexual
assault nurse examiners;
(D) grants to increase the level of sexual
assault services in this state;
(E) grants to support victim assistance
coordinators;
(F) grants to support technology in rape crisis
centers;
(G) grants to and contracts with a statewide
nonprofit organization exempt from federal income taxation under
Section 501(c)(3), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, having as a
primary purpose ending sexual violence in this state, for programs
for the prevention of sexual violence, outreach programs, and
technical assistance to and support of youth and rape crisis
centers working to prevent sexual violence; and
(H) grants to regional nonprofit providers of
civil legal services to provide legal assistance for sexual assault
victims;
(2) the Department of State Health Services, to
measure the prevalence of sexual assault in this state and for
grants to support programs assisting victims of human trafficking;
(3) the Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual
Assault at The University of Texas at Austin, to conduct research on
all aspects of sexual assault and domestic violence;
(4) Texas State University, for training and technical
assistance to independent school districts for campus safety;
(5) the office of the governor, for grants to support
sexual assault and human trafficking prosecution projects;
(6) the Department of Public Safety, to support sexual
assault training for commissioned officers;
(7) the comptroller's judiciary section, for
increasing the capacity of the sex offender civil commitment
program;
(8) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice:
(A) for pilot projects for monitoring sex
offenders on parole; and
(B) for increasing the number of adult
incarcerated sex offenders receiving treatment;
(9) the Texas Juvenile Justice Department [Youth
Commission], for increasing the number of incarcerated juvenile sex
offenders receiving treatment; and
(10) [the comptroller, for the administration of the
fee imposed on sexually oriented businesses under Section 102.052,
Business & Commerce Code; and
[(11)] the supreme court, to be transferred to the
Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation, or a similar entity, to
provide victim-related legal services to sexual assault victims,
including legal assistance with protective orders,
relocation-related matters, victim compensation, and actions to
secure privacy protections available to victims under law.
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 102, Business & Commerce
Code, is repealed.
SECTION 3. The repeal of Subchapter B, Chapter 102,
Business & Commerce Code, by this Act does not affect a fee imposed
by that subchapter before the effective date of this Act, and the
law in effect before the effective date of this Act is continued in
effect for purposes of the administration, collection, allocation,
and enforcement of a fee imposed before that date.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.