S.B. No. 686
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1-22 repealed.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.