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.