By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1402 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the payment of a judgment against the state in favor of 1-2 Thomas P. McDill, Jr. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. For payment to Thomas P. McDill, Jr. according to 1-5 the terms of a final judgment in the case of Thomas P. McDill, Jr. 1-6 v. Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission, Cause No. 1-7 93-07567 in the District Court of Travis County, 345th Judicial 1-8 District, there is appropriated to the comptroller of public 1-9 accounts from the general revenue fund the amount of $961,893, plus 1-10 postjudgment interest at a rate of 10 percent, compounded annually, 1-11 from December 1, 1994, until paid. 1-12 SECTION 2. A warrant may not be prepared for payment of the 1-13 judgment and interest unless any and all appeals of the district 1-14 court judgment have been denied and the judgment is approved by the 1-15 attorney general as a legally enforceable obligation of the state. 1-16 Following that approval, the comptroller shall issue a warrant as 1-17 soon as possible after the effective date of this Act in favor of 1-18 Thomas P. McDill, Jr. in the appropriate amount and shall mail or 1-19 deliver the warrant to Thomas P. McDill, Jr. in payment of the 1-20 judgment. 1-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-22 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 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.