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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