By: Whitmire S.B. No. 686
73R4966 DWS-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to use of an electronic funds transfer system by a county.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 113.041(b), Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) Except as provided by Chapter 156, a <A> person may not
1-7 spend or withdraw money from the county treasury except by a check
1-8 or warrant drawn on the county treasury, whether or not the money
1-9 is in a county depository as required by law.
1-10 SECTION 2. Section 156.001, Local Government Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 156.001. TRANSFER SYSTEM AUTHORIZED. A county may
1-13 establish and operate an electronic funds transfer system to make
1-14 any authorized transfer from the county treasury <the following
1-15 items directly into officers' and employees' accounts in financial
1-16 institutions only:>
1-17 <(1) the net pay of the officers and employees;>
1-18 <(2) payments for the travel and subsistence of the
1-19 officers and employees; and>
1-20 <(3) all other forms of compensation, payment, or
1-21 reimbursement paid to the officers and employees>.
1-22 SECTION 3. Section 156.002, Local Government Code, is
1-23 repealed.
1-24 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.