By Luna                                               H.B. No. 1277
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a fee collected by a prosecutor for collecting and
 1-3     processing a dishonored or forged check or similar sight order.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Article 102.007(c), Code of Criminal Procedure,
 1-6     is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  The amount of the fee may not exceed:
 1-8                 (1)  $10 if the face amount of the check or sight order
 1-9     does not exceed $10 [$100];
1-10                 (2)  $15 if the face amount of the check or sight order
1-11     is greater than $10 but does not exceed $100;
1-12                 (3)  $30 if the face amount of the check or sight order
1-13     is greater than $100 but does not exceed $300;
1-14                 (4) [(3)]  $50 if the face amount of the check or sight
1-15     order is greater than $300 but does not exceed $500; and
1-16                 (5) [(4)]  $75 if the face amount of the check or sight
1-17     order is greater than $500.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-19     applies only to a check or sight order issued on or after that
1-20     date.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.