1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to notice by the comptroller concerning certain unclaimed

 1-3     property.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 74.202, Property Code, is amended to read

 1-6     as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 74.202.  NOTICE FOR ITEM WITH VALUE LESS THAN $100 [NOT

 1-8     EXCEEDING $50].  In the notice required by Section 74.201, the

 1-9     comptroller [State Treasurer] is not required to publish

1-10     information regarding an item having a value that is less than $100

1-11     [$50] unless the comptroller [State Treasurer] determines that

1-12     publication of that information is in the public interest.

1-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1521  was passed by the House on May

         2, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1521 was passed by the Senate on May

         20, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                           Governor