1-1     By:  Bonnen (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)                  H.B. No. 1474

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 1997;

 1-3     April 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; April 22, 1997, reported favorably, as

 1-5     amended, by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 22, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Lucio

 1-8     Amend H.B. 1474 as follows:

 1-9     On line 18, strike "or" and substitute "and".

1-10                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

1-11                                   AN ACT

1-12     relating to the disbursement of county funds to certain debtors.

1-13           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-14           SECTION 1.  Section 154.025, Local Government Code, is

1-15     amended to read as follows:

1-16           Sec. 154.025.  DISBURSEMENTS TO PERSONS WITH OUTSTANDING DEBT

1-17     PROHIBITED.  If notice of indebtedness has been filed with the

1-18     county auditor or county treasurer evidencing the indebtedness of a

1-19     person to the state, the county, or a salary fund, a warrant may

1-20     not be drawn on a county fund in favor of a person, or an agent or

1-21     assignee of a person, until the person owing the debt is notified

1-22     that the debt is outstanding and the debt is paid.

1-23           SECTION 2.  Section 154.045, Local Government Code, is

1-24     amended to read as follows:

1-25           Sec. 154.045.  DISBURSEMENTS TO PERSON WITH OUTSTANDING DEBT

1-26     PROHIBITED.  If a notice of indebtedness has been filed with the

1-27     county auditor or county treasurer evidencing the indebtedness of a

1-28     person to the state, the county, or a salary fund, a warrant may

1-29     not be drawn on a county fund in favor of the person, or an agent

1-30     or assignee of the person, until the person owing the debt is

1-31     notified that the debt is outstanding and the debt is paid.

1-32           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-33     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-34     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-35     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-36     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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