1-1 By: Cuellar of Webb (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 3165 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1995; 1-3 May 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Jurisprudence; May 16, 1995, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 16, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to an additional security fee collected in Webb County. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Chapter 291, Local Government Code, is amended by 1-11 adding Section 291.009 to read as follows: 1-12 Sec. 291.009. WEBB COUNTY SECURITY FEE. (a) In addition to 1-13 any other fee authorized by law, the Webb County Commissioners 1-14 Court may set a fee not to exceed $20 to be collected at the time 1-15 of filing in each civil case filed in the county court, a county 1-16 court at law, or a district court in Webb County. The fee shall be 1-17 taxed as other costs. The county is not liable for the costs. 1-18 (b) In any civil case brought by the state or a political 1-19 subdivision of the state in which the state or political 1-20 subdivision is the prevailing party, the amount of a fee imposed 1-21 under Subsection (a) shall be taxed and collected as a cost of 1-22 court against each nonprevailing party. 1-23 (c) The clerks of the respective courts shall collect the 1-24 costs under Subsections (a) and (b). 1-25 (d) Costs and fees collected under this section shall be 1-26 paid to the county treasurer, or to any other official who 1-27 discharges the duties commonly delegated to the county treasurer, 1-28 for deposit in a special fund to be used by the commissioners court 1-29 only for courthouse security. 1-30 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and 1-31 applies only to civil cases filed in the county court, a county 1-32 court at law, or a district court in Webb County on or after that 1-33 date. 1-34 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-39 * * * * *