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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