By Goodman H.B. No. 870 76R2376 SMJ-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to county fees for handling certain registry funds. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 117.055(a), Local Government Code, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) To compensate the county for the accounting and 1-7 administrative expenses incurred in handling the registry funds 1-8 that have not earned interest, including funds in a special or 1-9 separate account, the clerk shall, at the time of withdrawal, 1-10 deduct from the amount of the withdrawal a fee in an amount equal 1-11 to five percent of the withdrawal but that may not exceed $50. 1-12 Withdrawal of funds generated from a case arising under the Family 1-13 Code is exempt from the fee deduction provided by this section. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-15 applies only to withdrawals of funds that are made on or after that 1-16 date. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.