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.