1-1 By: Oliveira (Senate Sponsor - Harris) H.B. No. 1477
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
1-3 March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 6, 1999, rereferred to Committee
1-5 on Jurisprudence; May 11, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-6 vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 11, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the amount of court costs imposed for the support of
1-10 the county law library.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 323.023(a), Local Government Code, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 (a) A sum set by the commissioners court not to exceed $35
1-15 [$20] shall be taxed, collected, and paid as other costs in each
1-16 civil case filed in a county or district court, except suits for
1-17 delinquent taxes. The county is not liable for the costs.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act applies to a civil case filed in a
1-19 county or district court on or after the effective date of an
1-20 action taken by a commissioners court under Section 323.023(a),
1-21 Local Government Code, as amended by this Act. A civil case filed
1-22 before the effective date of an action taken by a commissioners
1-23 court under Section 323.023(a), Local Government Code, as amended
1-24 by this Act, is governed by the law in effect when the case was
1-25 filed, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-26 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-27 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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