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.