By Hartnett H.B. No. 3173
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the duty of an officer to deposit certain money in the
1-3 county treasury.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 103.004, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Art. 103.004. DISPOSITION OF COLLECTED MONEY. (a) Except
1-8 as provided by Subsection (b), an [An] officer who collects
1-9 recognizances, bail bonds, fines, forfeitures, judgments, jury
1-10 fees, and other obligations recovered in the name of the state
1-11 under any provision of this title shall deposit the money in the
1-12 county treasury not later than the next regular business day after
1-13 the date that the money is collected. If it is not practicable for
1-14 the officer to deposit the money in the county treasury by that
1-15 date, the officer shall deposit the money in the county treasury
1-16 not later than the seventh regular business day after the date that
1-17 the money is [immediately pay the money to the county treasurer of
1-18 the county for which the money was] collected.
1-19 (b) The commissioners court of a county with a population of
1-20 less than 50,000 may authorize an officer who is required to
1-21 deposit money under Subsection (a) to deposit the money in the
1-22 county treasury not later than the 30th day after the date that the
1-23 money is collected.
1-24 (c) The custodian of the county treasury shall deposit money
2-1 received from fees imposed under Article 102.012 [of this code] in
2-2 the special fund of the county treasury for the community
2-3 supervision and corrections department serving the county.
2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
2-5 applies to obligations collected on or after that date. All
2-6 obligations recovered before September 1, 1999, are governed by the
2-7 law in effect on the date the obligations are collected.
2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.