By Luna                                         H.B. No. 1323

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to a fee collected by a prosecutor for collecting and

 1-3     processing a dishonored or forged check or similar sight order.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Article 102.007(c), Code of Criminal Procedure,

 1-6     is amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (c)  The amount of the fee may not exceed:

 1-8                 (1)  $10 [$5] if the face amount of the check or sight

 1-9     order does not exceed $10;

1-10                 (2)  $15 [$10] if the face amount of the check or sight

1-11     order is greater than $10 but does not exceed $100;

1-12                 (3)  $30 if the face amount of the check or sight order

1-13     is greater than $100 but does not exceed $300;

1-14                 (4)  $50 if the face amount of the check or sight order

1-15     is greater than $300 but does not exceed $500;  and

1-16                 (5)  $75 if the face amount of the check or sight order

1-17     is greater than $500.

1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-19     applies only to a check or sight order issued on or after that

1-20     date.

1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.