73R3993 CAG-D By Zbranek H.B. No. 1377 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the return of a warrant or check issued by a county. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 116.116, Local Government Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-6 (c) A warrant or check issued by the county treasurer in 1-7 settlement of a claim against a county that is not presented for 1-8 payment before the 366th day following the date of issuance is 1-9 overdue and nonnegotiable. The sum of the overdue warrant or check 1-10 shall be credited as revenue to the county if delivery to the 1-11 payees was attempted or occurred within a reasonable time following 1-12 the issuance of the warrant or check. No right to full settlement 1-13 of a proper unpaid claim is extinguished by this subsection. 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.