By Ramsay                                             H.B. No. 2467
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the requirements for posting a bond by a county
 1-3     treasurer.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 83.002(a), Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  The county treasurer, before beginning to perform
 1-8     [entering upon] the duties of office [and within 20 days after the
 1-9     date the certificate of election is received], must execute a bond
1-10     that must be approved by the commissioners court and made payable
1-11     to the county judge in an amount established by the commissioners
1-12     court.  The bond must be conditioned that the treasurer will:
1-13                 (1)  faithfully execute the duties of office;
1-14                 (2)  remit according to law all funds received as
1-15     county treasurer; and
1-16                 (3)  render an account of all funds received to the
1-17     commissioners court at each regular term of the court.
1-18           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-19     to a county treasurer who takes office on or after the effective
1-20     date of this Act.  A county treasurer who takes office before the
1-21     effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect
1-22     immediately before the effective date, and that law is continued in
1-23     effect for that purpose.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-5     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-6     passage, and it is so enacted.