Bill Text: TX HB402 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
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-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 402 | ||
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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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 402 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 13, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 402 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 19, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
