73R3793 DRH-F
          By Stiles                                              H.B. No. 772
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the disposition of abandoned or unclaimed property.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Article 18.17, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
    1-5  amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
    1-6        (h)  If the abandoned or unclaimed personal property is
    1-7  money, the municipal or county purchasing agent, or the sheriff of
    1-8  the county, as appropriate, may, after giving notice under
    1-9  Subsection (b) or (c) of this article, deposit the money in the
   1-10  treasury of the municipality or county giving notice without
   1-11  conducting the sale as required by Subsection (d) of this article.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-18  passage, and it is so enacted.
   1-19                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
   1-20        Amend H.B. 772 as follows:
   1-21        (1)  On page 1, between lines 11 and 12, add a new Section 2
   1-22  to read as follows:
   1-23        "SECTION 2.  Art. 18.17(f), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-24  amended to read as follows:
    2-1        "(f)  For the purposes of this article, "purchasing agent of
    2-2  the municipality" means the person who is primarily responsible for
    2-3  making purchases on behalf of a municipality or a person designated
    2-4  by the municipality."
    2-5        (2)  Renumber subsequent sections as appropriate.
    2-6                                                             Hartnett