By:  Whitmire                                          S.B. No. 686
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to use of an electronic funds transfer system by a county.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 113.041, Local Government
    1-4  Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-5        (b)  Except as provided by Chapter 156, a <A> person may not
    1-6  spend or withdraw money from the county treasury except by a check
    1-7  or warrant drawn on the county treasury, whether or not the money
    1-8  is in a county depository as required by law.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  Section 156.001, Local Government Code, is
   1-10  amended to read as follows:
   1-11        Sec. 156.001.  TRANSFER SYSTEM AUTHORIZED.  A county may
   1-12  establish and operate an electronic funds transfer system to make
   1-13  any authorized transfer from the county treasury <the following
   1-14  items directly into officers' and employees' accounts in financial
   1-15  institutions only:>
   1-16              <(1)  the net pay of the officers and employees;>
   1-17              <(2)  payments for the travel and subsistence of the
   1-18  officers and employees; and>
   1-19              <(3)  all other forms of compensation, payment, or
   1-20  reimbursement paid to the officers and employees>.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  Section 156.002, Local Government Code, is
   1-22  repealed.
   1-23        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-4  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-5  passage, and it is so enacted.