Sec. 508.322. RELEASEE RESTITUTION FUND. (a) The releasee restitution fund is a fund outside the treasury and consists of restitution payments made by releasees. Money in the fund may be used only to pay restitution as required by a condition of parole or mandatory supervision to victims of criminal offenses.
(b) The comptroller is the trustee of the releasee restitution fund as provided by Section 404.073.
(c) When a parole panel orders the payment of restitution from a releasee as provided by Article 42.037(h), Code of Criminal Procedure, the department shall:
(1) collect the payment for disbursement to the victim;
(2) deposit the payment in the releasee restitution fund; and
(3) transmit the payment to the victim as soon as practicable.
(d) If a victim who is entitled to restitution cannot be located, immediately after receiving a final payment in satisfaction of an order of restitution for the victim, the department shall attempt to notify the victim of that fact by certified mail, mailed to the last known address of the victim. If a victim then makes a claim for payment, the department promptly shall remit the payment to the victim.
(e) Money that remains unclaimed shall be transferred to the compensation to victims of crime auxiliary fund on the fifth anniversary of the date the money was deposited to the credit of the releasee restitution fund.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 12.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 856, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
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