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.