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.
_______________________________ _______________________________
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.
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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