1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to certain bonds required of a county tax
 1-3     assessor-collector and a county treasurer.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 6.28(a), Tax Code, is amended to read as
 1-6     follows:
 1-7           (a)  Before beginning to perform the duties of [To qualify
 1-8     for] office, a person elected or appointed as county
 1-9     assessor-collector must[, within 20 days after receiving notice of
1-10     his election or appointment,] give bonds to the state and to the
1-11     county, conditioned on the faithful performance of the person's
1-12     [his] duties as assessor-collector.
1-13           SECTION 2.  Section 83.002(a), Local Government Code, is
1-14     amended to read as follows:
1-15           (a)  The county treasurer, before beginning to perform
1-16     [entering upon] the duties of office [and within 20 days after the
1-17     date the certificate of election is received], must execute a bond
1-18     that must be approved by the commissioners court and made payable
1-19     to the county judge in an amount established by the commissioners
1-20     court.  The bond must be conditioned that the treasurer will:
1-21                 (1)  faithfully execute the duties of office;
1-22                 (2)  remit according to law all funds received as
1-23     county treasurer; and
1-24                 (3)  render an account of all funds received to the
 2-1     commissioners court at each regular term of the court.
 2-2           SECTION 3.  Section 6.28(a), Tax Code, as amended by this
 2-3     Act, applies only to a county assessor-collector who is elected or
 2-4     appointed on or  after the effective date of this Act.  A county
 2-5     assessor-collector who is elected or appointed before the effective
 2-6     date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date of
 2-7     the election or appointment, and that law is continued in effect
 2-8     for that purpose.
 2-9           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-15     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3458 was passed by the House on May
         8, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
         No. 3458 on May 26, 1999, by a non-record vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 3458 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 24, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays
         0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor