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.

         _______________________________     _______________________________

             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2769 was passed by the House on April

         18, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 142, Nays 0, 2 present, not

         voting.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2769 was passed by the Senate on May

         12, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor