1-1 By: Lucio S.B. No. 1000 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 6, 1997; March 11, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; March 20, 1997, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 20, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the disbursement of county funds to certain debtors. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Section 154.025, Local Government Code, is 1-11 amended to read as follows: 1-12 Sec. 154.025. DISBURSEMENTS TO PERSONS WITH OUTSTANDING DEBT 1-13 PROHIBITED. If notice of indebtedness has been filed with the 1-14 county auditor or county treasurer evidencing the indebtedness of a 1-15 person to the state, the county, or a salary fund, a warrant may 1-16 not be drawn on a county fund in favor of a person, or an agent or 1-17 assignee of a person, until the person owing the debt is notified 1-18 that the debt is outstanding and the debt is paid. 1-19 SECTION 2. Section 154.045, Local Government Code, is 1-20 amended to read as follows: 1-21 Sec. 154.045. DISBURSEMENTS TO PERSON WITH OUTSTANDING DEBT 1-22 PROHIBITED. If a notice of indebtedness has been filed with the 1-23 county auditor or county treasurer evidencing the indebtedness of a 1-24 person to the state, the county, or a salary fund, a warrant may 1-25 not be drawn on a county fund in favor of the person, or an agent 1-26 or assignee of the person, until the person owing the debt is 1-27 notified that the debt is outstanding and the debt is paid. 1-28 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-33 * * * * *