By Tillery                                      H.B. No. 1479

      75R6236 ESH-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the use of money in the county law library fund.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 323.023(b), Local Government Code, is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (b)  The clerks of the respective courts shall collect the

 1-7     costs and pay them to the county treasurer, or to any other

 1-8     official who discharges the duties commonly delegated to the county

 1-9     treasurer, for deposit in a fund to be known as the county law

1-10     library fund.  The fund may be used only for the purpose of:

1-11                 (1)  establishing the law library after the entry of

1-12     the order creating it;

1-13                 (2)  [or for the purpose of] purchasing or leasing

1-14     library materials, maintaining the library, or acquiring furniture,

1-15     shelving, or equipment for the library; or

1-16                 (3)  purchasing or leasing library materials or

1-17     acquiring library equipment for use by judges in the county.

1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.