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.