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.
1-50 * * * * *
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
1-64 * * * * *
1-65 WITNESSES
1-66 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 1135.