By Combs, Wilson H.B. No. 1700 74R6262 SRC-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the payment of a judgment against the state in favor of 1-3 George Green. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. For payment to George Green according to the 1-6 terms of a judgment in the case of George Green v. Texas Department 1-7 of Human Services, Cause No. 480,701 in the District Court of 1-8 Travis County, 53rd Judicial District, there is appropriated to the 1-9 comptroller of public accounts from the general revenue fund the 1-10 amount of $13,769,078, plus postjudgment interest at a rate of 10 1-11 percent from October 10, 1991, until paid, as computed by the 1-12 comptroller and estimated at $6,196,382.43. 1-13 SECTION 2. A warrant may not be prepared for payment of the 1-14 judgment and interest unless the judgment is approved by the 1-15 attorney general as a legally enforceable obligation of the state. 1-16 Following that approval, the comptroller shall issue a warrant as 1-17 soon as possible after the effective date of this Act in favor of 1-18 George Green in the appropriate amount and shall mail or deliver 1-19 the warrant to George Green in payment of the judgment. 1-20 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-21 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.