By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 284
         99S0124/1                           
                                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.