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. 1-37 * * * * *