73R8621 DWS-F
By Hunter of Taylor H.B. No. 265
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 265:
By Chisum C.S.H.B. No. 265
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to county law library fees charged in cases filed in
1-3 certain courts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 323.023(a), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (a) A sum set by the commissioners court not to exceed $30
1-8 <$20> shall be taxed, collected, and paid as other costs in each
1-9 civil case filed in a county or district court, except suits for
1-10 delinquent taxes. A sum set by the commissioners court not to
1-11 exceed $10 shall be taxed, collected, and paid as other costs in
1-12 each civil case filed in a justice of the peace court. The county
1-13 is not liable for the costs.
1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.