AN ACT
1-1 relating to a fee collected by a prosecutor for collecting and
1-2 processing a dishonored or forged check or similar sight order.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Article 102.007, Code of Criminal
1-5 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (c) The amount of the fee may not exceed:
1-7 (1) [$5 if the face amount of the check or sight order
1-8 does not exceed $10;]
1-9 [(2)] $10 if the face amount of the check or sight
1-10 order [is greater than $10 but] does not exceed $100;
1-11 (2) [(3)] $30 if the face amount of the check or sight
1-12 order is greater than $100 but does not exceed $300;
1-13 (3) [(4)] $50 if the face amount of the check or sight
1-14 order is greater than $300 but does not exceed $500; and
1-15 (4) [(5)] $75 if the face amount of the check or sight
1-16 order is greater than $500.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-18 applies only to a check or sight order issued on or after that
1-19 date.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 174 passed the Senate on
March 13, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 174 passed the House on
May 10, 1997, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor