By Horn                                                H.B. No. 750
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the prohibition of certain disbursements from a county
    1-3  fund to a person with an outstanding debt to the state or the
    1-4  county.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 154.025, Local Government Code, is
    1-7  amended to hereafter read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 154.025.  DISBURSEMENTS TO PERSONS WITH OUTSTANDING DEBT
    1-9  PROHIBITED.  If notice of indebtedness has been filed with the
   1-10  county auditor evidencing the indebtedness of a person to the
   1-11  state, the county, or a salary fund, a warrant may not be drawn on
   1-12  a county <salary> fund in favor of a person, or an agent or assignee
   1-13  of a person, until the person owing the debt is notified that the
   1-14  debt is outstanding and the debt is paid <who is indebted to the
   1-15  state, the county, or the salary fund.>
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house by suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.