H.B. No. 86 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to unclaimed juror reimbursement payments. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 61.001, Government Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-6 (e) A reimbursement for expenses under this section is not a 1-7 property right of a juror or prospective juror for purposes of 1-8 Chapters 72 and 74, Property Code. If a check or other instrument 1-9 representing a reimbursement under this section is not presented 1-10 for payment or redeemed before the 90th day after it is issued: 1-11 (1) the instrument is considered forfeited and is 1-12 void; and 1-13 (2) the money represented by the instrument may be 1-14 placed in the county's jury fund, the county's general fund, or any 1-15 other fund in which county funds can be legally placed, at the 1-16 discretion of the commissioners court. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.