By:  Nelson                                           S.B. No. 1135
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to fees charged by county attorneys, district attorneys,
    1-2  and criminal district attorneys for processing certain checks and
    1-3  similar sight orders.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Article 102.007, Code of Criminal
    1-6  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  The amount of the fee may not exceed:
    1-8              (1)  $25 <$5> if the face amount of the check or sight
    1-9  order does not exceed <$10>;
   1-10              <(2)  $10 if the face amount of the check or sight
   1-11  order is greater than $10 but does not exceed> $100;
   1-12              (2) <(3)>  $30 if the face amount of the check or sight
   1-13  order is greater than $100 but does not exceed $300;
   1-14              (3) <(4)>  $50 if the face amount of the check or sight
   1-15  order is greater than $300 but does not exceed $500; and
   1-16              (4) <(5)>  $75 if the face amount of the check or sight
   1-17  order is greater than $500.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
   1-19  to a check or similar sight order issued on or after the effective
   1-20  date of this Act.  A check or similar sight order issued before the
   1-21  effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect on the
   1-22  day of issuance, and the former law is continued in effect for that
   1-23  purpose.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-1        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.