By Lewis of Tarrant                             H.B. No. 1348

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the appraisal of certain property conveyed in trust to

 1-3     a county bail bond board.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 6(d), Chapter 550, Acts of the 63rd

 1-6     Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 2372p-3, Vernon's Texas

 1-7     Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:

 1-8           (d)  Prior to a hearing on the application, the board or its

 1-9     authorized representative shall conduct necessary inquiries to

1-10     determine whether the applicant possesses the financial

1-11     responsibility and meets other requirements of this Act.  The board

1-12     may obtain an independent appraisal of real estate listed by the

1-13     applicant under Subsection (a)(4) of this section as the board

1-14     determines necessary to ascertain the value of the property.

1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-16     applies only to an application for a license made on or after that

1-17     date.  A license application made before the effective date of this

1-18     Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the application

1-19     was made, and the former law is continued in effect for that

1-20     purpose.

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.