73R1363 MRB-D
          By Uher                                                H.B. No. 132
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the notice required to be given of the fees charged for
    1-3  the services of a sheriff or constable.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 118.131(f), Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (f)  On or before October 15 of each year, the commissioners
    1-8  court shall provide written notice of the amounts of the fees set
    1-9  under this section to the comptroller.  Before November 15 of each
   1-10  year, the comptroller shall compile the fee information provided by
   1-11  counties and send the compilation to:
   1-12              (1)  the commissioners court of each county in this
   1-13  state;
   1-14              (2)  any statewide association of counties or of
   1-15  officers of counties that requests in writing before November 15
   1-16  <September 30> to be informed; and
   1-17              (3)  the State Bar of Texas.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-24  passage, and it is so enacted.
    2-1                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
    2-2        Amend H.B. No. 132 on page one, line 9, to delete "November"
    2-3  and insert "December" between "before" and "15".
    2-4        Amend H.B. No. 132 on page one, line 15, to delete "November"
    2-5  and insert "December" between "before" and "15".
    2-6                                                             Longoria