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.

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