1-1     By:  Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Madla)                 H.B. No. 3458
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
 1-3     May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported adversely, with
 1-5     favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays
 1-6     0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3458                   By:  Madla
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to certain bonds required of a county tax
1-11     assessor-collector and a county treasurer.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 6.28(a), Tax Code, is amended to read as
1-14     follows:
1-15           (a)  Before beginning to perform the duties of [To qualify
1-16     for] office, a person elected or appointed as county
1-17     assessor-collector must[, within 20 days after receiving notice of
1-18     his election or appointment,] give bonds to the state and to the
1-19     county, conditioned on the faithful performance of the person's
1-20     [his] duties as assessor-collector.
1-21           SECTION 2.  Section 83.002(a), Local Government Code, is
1-22     amended to read as follows:
1-23           (a)  The county treasurer, before beginning to perform
1-24     [entering upon] the duties of office [and within 20 days after the
1-25     date the certificate of election is received], must execute a bond
1-26     that must be approved by the commissioners court and made payable
1-27     to the county judge in an amount established by the commissioners
1-28     court.  The bond must be conditioned that the treasurer will:
1-29                 (1)  faithfully execute the duties of office;
1-30                 (2)  remit according to law all funds received as
1-31     county treasurer; and
1-32                 (3)  render an account of all funds received to the
1-33     commissioners court at each regular term of the court.
1-34           SECTION 3.  Section 6.28(a), Tax Code, as amended by this
1-35     Act, applies only to a county assessor-collector who is elected or
1-36     appointed on or after the effective date of this Act.  A county
1-37     assessor-collector who is elected or appointed before the effective
1-38     date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date of
1-39     the election or appointment, and that law is continued in effect
1-40     for that purpose.
1-41           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-42     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-43     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-44     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-45     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-46     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-47     passage, and it is so enacted.
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