73R727 ESH-F
          By Kamel                                                H.B. No. 86
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    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 remains
   1-14  part of the county's jury fund.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.
   1-22                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
   1-23        Amend H.B. 86 as follows:  On the sentence beginning on page
   1-24  1, line 13, strike "remains part of the county's jury fund" and
    2-1  insert the following after "instrument":  may be placed in the
    2-2  county's jury fund, the county's general fund, or any other fund in
    2-3  which county funds can be legally placed, at the discretion of the
    2-4  commissioners court.
    2-5                                                             Longoria