By: Brown S.B. No. 284
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the fee collected by a prosecutor for collecting and
1-2 processing a dishonored or forged check or similar sight order.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Article 102.007, Code of Criminal
1-5 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (c) The amount of the fee may not exceed:
1-7 (1) $10 if the face amount of the check or sight order
1-8 does not exceed $10 [$100];
1-9 (2) $15 if the face amount of the check or sight order
1-10 is greater than $10 but does not exceed $100;
1-11 (3) $30 if the face amount of the check or sight order
1-12 is greater than $100 but does not exceed $300;
1-13 (4) [(3)] $50 if the face amount of the check or sight
1-14 order is greater than $300 but does not exceed $500; and
1-15 (5) [(4)] $75 if the face amount of the check or sight
1-16 order is greater than $500.
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-18 applies only to a check or sight order issued on or after that
1-19 date.
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.