1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the disbursement of county funds to certain debtors.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 154.025, Local Government Code, is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 154.025.  DISBURSEMENTS TO PERSONS WITH OUTSTANDING DEBT

 1-7     PROHIBITED.  If notice of indebtedness has been filed with the

 1-8     county auditor and county treasurer evidencing the indebtedness of

 1-9     a person to the state, the county, or a salary fund, a warrant may

1-10     not be drawn on a county fund in favor of a person, or an agent or

1-11     assignee of a person, until the person owing the debt is notified

1-12     that the debt is outstanding and the debt is paid.

1-13           SECTION 2.  Section 154.045, Local Government Code, is

1-14     amended to read as follows:

1-15           Sec. 154.045.  DISBURSEMENTS TO PERSON WITH OUTSTANDING DEBT

1-16     PROHIBITED.  If a notice of indebtedness has been filed with the

1-17     county auditor or county treasurer evidencing the indebtedness of a

1-18     person to the state, the county, or a salary fund, a warrant may

1-19     not be drawn on a county fund in favor of the person, or an agent

1-20     or assignee of the person, until the person owing the debt is

1-21     notified that the debt is outstanding and the debt is paid.

1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

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

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1474 was passed by the House on April

         11, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in

         Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1474 on May 6, 1997, by a non-record

         vote.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1474 was passed by the Senate, with

         amendments, on May 1, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays

         0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor