1-1 By: Uher (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 132
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 5, 1993;
1-3 April 5, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Finance; May 10, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 10, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Montford x
1-9 Turner x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Ellis x
1-14 Haley x
1-15 Moncrief x
1-16 Parker x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Sims x
1-19 Truan x
1-20 Zaffirini x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the notice required to be given of the fees charged for
1-24 the services of a sheriff or constable.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Section 118.131(f), Local Government Code, is
1-27 amended to read as follows:
1-28 (f) On or before October 15 of each year, the commissioners
1-29 court shall provide written notice of the amounts of the fees set
1-30 under this section to the comptroller. Before December 15 of each
1-31 year, the comptroller shall compile the fee information provided by
1-32 counties and send the compilation to:
1-33 (1) the commissioners court of each county in this
1-34 state;
1-35 (2) any statewide association of counties or of
1-36 officers of counties that requests in writing before December 15
1-37 <September 30> to be informed; and
1-38 (3) the State Bar of Texas.
1-39 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-40 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-41 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-42 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-43 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-44 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-45 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-46 * * * * *
1-47 Austin,
1-48 Texas
1-49 May 10, 1993
1-50 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-51 President of the Senate
1-52 Sir:
1-53 We, your Committee on Finance to which was referred H.B. No. 132,
1-54 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
1-55 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-56 pass and be printed.
1-57 Montford,
1-58 Chairman
1-59 * * * * *
1-60 WITNESSES
1-61 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 132.