76R9667 GJH-F                           
         By Kuempel                                            H.B. No. 3458
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3458:
         By Oliveira                                       C.S.H.B. No. 3458
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to certain bonds required of a county tax
 1-3     assessor-collector.
 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 office [To
 1-8     qualify 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 6.28(a), Tax Code, as amended by this
1-14     Act, applies only to a county assessor-collector who is elected or
1-15     appointed on or  after the effective date of this Act.  A county
1-16     assessor-collector who is elected or appointed before the effective
1-17     date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date of
1-18     the election or appointment, and that law is continued in effect
1-19     for that purpose.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.