By Goolsby H.B. No. 2769 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the county depository and depositories for certain 1-3 trust funds. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 116.116(c), Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (c) A warrant or check, including a warrant or check issued 1-8 prior to September 1, 1993, issued by the county treasurer in 1-9 settlement of a claim against a county that is not presented for 1-10 payment before the 366th day following the date of issuance is 1-11 overdue and nonnegotiable. The sum of the overdue warrant or check 1-12 shall be credited as revenue to the county if delivery to the 1-13 payees was attempted or occurred within a reasonable time following 1-14 the issuance of the warrant or check. No right to full settlement 1-15 of a proper unpaid claim is extinguished by this subsection. 1-16 SECTION 2. Section 117.002, Local Government Code, is 1-17 amended to read as follows: 1-18 Sec. 117.002 TRANSFER OF UNCLAIMED FUNDS TO STATE TREASURER. 1-19 Any funds, except cash bail bonds, deposited under this chapter 1-20 that are presumed abandoned under Chapter 72, 73, or 75, Property 1-21 Code, shall be reported and delivered by the county or district 1-22 clerk to the state treasurer without further action by any court. 1-23 The dormancy period for funds deposited under this chapter begins 1-24 on the later of: 2-1 (1) the date of entry of final judgment or order of 2-2 dismissal in the action in which the funds were deposited; 2-3 (2) the 18th birthday of the minor for whom the funds were 2-4 deposited; or 2-5 (3) a reasonable date established by rule by the state 2-6 treasurer to promote the public interest in disposing of unclaimed 2-7 funds. 2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-13 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-14 passage, and it is so enacted.