1-1  By:  Horn (Senate Sponsor - Nelson)                    H.B. No. 750
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 1995;
    1-3  April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; April 19, 1995, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 19, 1995, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to the prohibition of certain disbursements from a county
   1-10  fund to a person with an outstanding debt to the state or the
   1-11  county.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  Section 154.025, Local Government Code, is
   1-14  amended to read as follows:
   1-15        Sec. 154.025.  DISBURSEMENTS TO PERSONS <PERSON> WITH
   1-16  OUTSTANDING DEBT PROHIBITED.  If notice of indebtedness has been
   1-17  filed with the county auditor evidencing the indebtedness of a
   1-18  person to the state, the county, or a salary fund, a <A> warrant
   1-19  may not be drawn on a county <salary> fund in favor of a person, or
   1-20  an agent or assignee of a person, until the person owing the debt
   1-21  is notified that the debt is outstanding and the debt is paid <who
   1-22  is indebted to the state, the county, or the salary fund>.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-25  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-26  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-27  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-28  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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