By Martin                                             H.B. No. 2270
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the review and approval of claims for property presumed
    1-3  abandoned and delivered to the state treasurer.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 74.502(d), Property Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (d)  If the amount paid under Subsection (b) is more than
    1-8  $100, the State Treasurer <and the attorney general> shall examine
    1-9  the claim and any supporting affidavit or evidence of the claim.
   1-10  Before the State Treasurer may reimburse a depository for a claim
   1-11  under this subsection, the claim must be approved and signed by the
   1-12  State Treasurer <and the attorney general>.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  Section 74.503, Property Code, is amended to read
   1-14  as follows:
   1-15        Sec. 74.503.  CONSIDERATION OF CLAIM.  The State Treasurer
   1-16  <and the attorney general> or his <their> authorized agents
   1-17  <jointly> shall consider the validity of each claim filed under
   1-18  this subchapter.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-20        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.