1-1     By:  Lindsay                                           S.B. No. 221
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 21, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; February 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; February 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the assessment of costs or fees by a county or
 1-9     municipality related to the seizure, acceptance, impoundment, or
1-10     destruction of a dangerous dog.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 822.042, Health and
1-13     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-14           (d)  The owner shall pay any cost or fee assessed by the
1-15     municipality or county related to the seizure, impoundment, or
1-16     [and] destruction of the dog or, if it is delivered or surrendered
1-17     by the owner, related to the acceptance of the dog.  The governing
1-18     body of the municipality or county may prescribe the amount of the
1-19     fees.
1-20           SECTION 2.  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,
1-25     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-26     passage, and it is so enacted.
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