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.
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   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.