1-1 By: Hartnett (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 3173
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
1-3 May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the duty of an officer to deposit certain money in the
1-9 county treasury.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Article 103.004, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 Art. 103.004. DISPOSITION OF COLLECTED MONEY. (a) Except
1-14 as provided by Subsection (b), an [An] officer who collects
1-15 recognizances, bail bonds, fines, forfeitures, judgments, jury
1-16 fees, and other obligations recovered in the name of the state
1-17 under any provision of this title shall deposit the money in the
1-18 county treasury not later than the next regular business day after
1-19 the date that the money is collected. If it is not practicable for
1-20 the officer to deposit the money in the county treasury by that
1-21 date, the officer shall deposit the money in the county treasury
1-22 not later than the seventh regular business day after the date that
1-23 the money is [immediately pay the money to the county treasurer of
1-24 the county for which the money was] collected.
1-25 (b) The commissioners court of a county with a population of
1-26 less than 50,000 may authorize an officer who is required to
1-27 deposit money under Subsection (a) to deposit the money in the
1-28 county treasury not later than the 30th day after the date that the
1-29 money is collected.
1-30 (c) The custodian of the county treasury shall deposit money
1-31 received from fees imposed under Article 102.012 [of this code] in
1-32 the special fund of the county treasury for the community
1-33 supervision and corrections department serving the county.
1-34 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-35 applies to obligations collected on or after that date. All
1-36 obligations recovered before September 1, 1999, are governed by the
1-37 law in effect on the date the obligations are collected.
1-38 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-39 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-40 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-41 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-42 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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