1-1 By: Goodman (Senate Sponsor - Harris) H.B. No. 870 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 25, 1999; 1-3 March 29, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Jurisprudence; April 27, 1999, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 27, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to county fees for handling certain registry funds. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Section 117.055(a), Local Government Code, is 1-11 amended to read as follows: 1-12 (a) To compensate the county for the accounting and 1-13 administrative expenses incurred in handling the registry funds 1-14 that have not earned interest, including funds in a special or 1-15 separate account, the clerk shall, at the time of withdrawal, 1-16 deduct from the amount of the withdrawal a fee in an amount equal 1-17 to five percent of the withdrawal but that may not exceed $50. 1-18 Withdrawal of funds generated from a case arising under the Family 1-19 Code is exempt from the fee deduction provided by this section. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-21 applies only to withdrawals of funds that are made on or after that 1-22 date. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-28 * * * * *