HBA-PDH, LCA H.B. 3699 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 3699
By: Shields
Judicial Affairs
4/22/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

The 1995 Local Law Enforcement Block Grant Program(program) makes federal
block grants available to municipalities and counties.  H.B. 3699 amends
the Government Code to provide a mechanism to allow the attorney general to
certify that a local government bears more than 50 percent of prosecution
and incarceration costs of violent crimes in a specified geographically
constituent unit of local government, thus making that local government
eligible for the funds provided by the program. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that rulemaking
authority is expressly designated to the attorney general in SECTION
1(Section 402.029, Government Code) of this bill.  

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Subchapter B, Chapter 402, Government Code, by adding
Section 402.029, as follows: 

Sec.  402.029.  Authorizes the attorney general, notwithstanding any other
law, under Section 104(b)(9), of the federal Local Law Enforcement Block
Grant Act of 1995, to certify, by rule, that a unit of local government
under the jurisdiction of the state bears more than 50 percent of the costs
of prosecution or incarceration that arise with respect to Part I violent
crimes reported by a specified geographically constituent unit of
government. 

SECTION 2.  Emergency clause.
  Effective date: upon passage.