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.
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