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