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.