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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