1-1 By: Nixon S.B. No. 775
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 27, 1995; February 28, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; March 22, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; March 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Gallegos
1-7 Amend S.B. No. 775, SECTION 1, Section 118.141(2), by deleting
1-8 "$20.00" and substituting "the current stop payment fee charged to
1-9 the county by the county depository" on page 1, line 13 (committee
1-10 printing page 1, line 24).
1-11 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-12 AN ACT
1-13 relating to the fees a county treasurer may charge for returned and
1-14 stopped checks.
1-15 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-16 SECTION 1. Section 118.141, Local Government Code, is
1-17 amended to read as follows:
1-18 Sec. 118.141. Fee Schedule. The county treasurer, or
1-19 another officer who receives revenue in place of the county
1-20 treasurer, may collect the following fees for services rendered to
1-21 any person:
1-22 (1) Returned check (Sec. 118.142) ........... not less
1-23 than $15.00 or more than $30.00 <$25.00>
1-24 (2) Stop-payment order (Sec. 118.143) ......... $20.00
1-25 <$15.00>
1-26 (3) Copy of check or other record
1-27 (Sec. 118.144) .............................................. $1.00
1-28 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-29 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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