1-1 By Bonnen H.B. No. 1474 1-2 75R3555 PAM-D 1-3 AN ACT 1-4 relating to the disbursement of county funds to certain debtors. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 154.025, Local Government Code, is 1-7 amended to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 154.025. DISBURSEMENTS TO PERSONS WITH OUTSTANDING DEBT 1-9 PROHIBITED. If notice of indebtedness has been filed with the 1-10 county auditor or county treasurer evidencing the indebtedness of a 1-11 person to the state, the county, or a salary fund, a warrant may 1-12 not be drawn on a county fund in favor of a person, or an agent or 1-13 assignee of a person, until the person owing the debt is notified 1-14 that the debt is outstanding and the debt is paid. 1-15 SECTION 2. Section 154.045, Local Government Code, is 1-16 amended to read as follows: 1-17 Sec. 154.045. DISBURSEMENTS TO PERSON WITH OUTSTANDING DEBT 1-18 PROHIBITED. If a notice of indebtedness has been filed with the 1-19 county auditor or county treasurer evidencing the indebtedness of a 1-20 person to the state, the county, or a salary fund, a warrant may 1-21 not be drawn on a county fund in favor of the person, or an agent 1-22 or assignee of the person, until the person owing the debt is 1-23 notified that the debt is outstanding and the debt is paid. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.