S.B. No. 775
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the fees a county treasurer may charge for returned and
    1-2  stopped checks.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 118.141, Local Government Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 118.141.  Fee Schedule.  (a)  The county treasurer, or
    1-7  another officer who receives revenue in place of the county
    1-8  treasurer, may collect the following fees for services rendered to
    1-9  any person:
   1-10              (1)  Returned check (Sec. 118.142) ........... not less
   1-11  than $15.00 or more than $30.00 <$25.00>
   1-12              (2)  <Stop-payment order (Sec. 118.143) ........ $15.00>
   1-13              <(3)>  Copy of check or other record (Sec. 118.144)
   1-14  ............................................................. $1.00
   1-15        (b)  The county treasurer or another officer who receives
   1-16  revenue in place of the county treasurer may collect, from a person
   1-17  to whom the county issues a check, a fee for a stop-payment order
   1-18  as described by Section 118.143:
   1-19              (1)  in an amount equal to the stop-payment fee charged
   1-20  to the county by the county depositary bank; or
   1-21              (2)  in an amount not to exceed $20.00.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.