By Hamric                                             H.B. No. 1712
       74R5764 DRH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the fees a county treasurer may charge for returned
    1-3  checks.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 118.141, Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 118.141.  Fee Schedule.  The county treasurer, or
    1-8  another officer who receives revenue in place of the county
    1-9  treasurer, may collect the following fees for services rendered to
   1-10  any person:
   1-11              (1)  Returned check (Sec. 118.142) ........... not less
   1-12  than $15.00 or more than $30.00 <$25.00>
   1-13              (2)  Stop-payment order (Sec. 118.143) ......... $20.00
   1-14  <$15.00>
   1-15              (3)  Copy   of   check   or   other   record
   1-16  (Sec. 118.144) .............................................. $1.00
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.