1-1  By:  Nelson                                           S.B. No. 1135
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
    1-4  May 11, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
    1-5  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 1; May 11, 1993,
    1-6  sent to printer.)
    1-7                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-8                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-9        Whitmire           x                               
   1-10        Brown              x                               
   1-11        Nelson             x                               
   1-12        Sibley                                         x   
   1-13        Sims               x                               
   1-14        Turner             x                               
   1-15        West                       x                       
   1-16  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1135                  By:  Nelson
   1-17                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-18                                AN ACT
   1-19  relating to fees charged by county attorneys, district attorneys,
   1-20  and criminal district attorneys for processing certain checks and
   1-21  similar sight orders.
   1-22        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-23        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Article 102.007, Code of Criminal
   1-24  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
   1-25        (c)  The amount of the fee may not exceed:
   1-26              (1)  $20 <$5> if the face amount of the check or sight
   1-27  order does not exceed $100 <$10>;
   1-28              (2)  $50 <$10> if the face amount of the check or sight
   1-29  order is greater than $100 <$10> but does not exceed $300 <$100>;
   1-30              (3)  $75 <$30> if the face amount of the check or sight
   1-31  order is greater than $300 <$100> but does not exceed $500 <$300>;
   1-32  and
   1-33              (4)  $100 <$50> if the face amount of the check or
   1-34  sight order is greater than $500 <$300 but does not exceed $500;
   1-35  and>
   1-36              <(5)  $75 if the face amount of the check or sight
   1-37  order is greater than $500>.
   1-38        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
   1-39  to a check or similar sight order issued on or after the effective
   1-40  date of this Act.  A check or similar sight order issued before the
   1-41  effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect on the
   1-42  day of issuance, and the former law is continued in effect for that
   1-43  purpose.
   1-44        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-45        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-46  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-47  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-48  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-49  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-51                                                         Austin,
   1-52  Texas
   1-53                                                         May 11, 1993
   1-54  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-55  President of the Senate
   1-56  Sir:
   1-57  We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred S.B.
   1-58  No. 1135, have had the same under consideration, and I am
   1-59  instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
   1-60  that it do not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in
   1-61  lieu thereof do pass and be printed.
   1-62                                                         Whitmire,
   1-63  Chairman
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   1-65                               WITNESSES
   1-66  No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 1135.