76R12630 GWK-F                           
         By Hartnett                                           H.B. No. 3173
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3173:
         By Hartnett                                       C.S.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 collected [immediately pay the money to the county
1-18     treasurer of 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.