1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 284
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 27, 1999; February 1, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 February 18, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
1-5 7, Nays 0; February 18, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the fee collected by a prosecutor for collecting and
1-9 processing a dishonored or forged check or similar sight order.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Article 102.007, Code of Criminal
1-12 Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (c) The amount of the fee may not exceed:
1-14 (1) $10 if the face amount of the check or sight order
1-15 does not exceed $10 [$100];
1-16 (2) $15 if the face amount of the check or sight order
1-17 is greater than $10 but does not exceed $100;
1-18 (3) $30 if the face amount of the check or sight order
1-19 is greater than $100 but does not exceed $300;
1-20 (4) [(3)] $50 if the face amount of the check or sight
1-21 order is greater than $300 but does not exceed $500; and
1-22 (5) [(4)] $75 if the face amount of the check or sight
1-23 order is greater than $500.
1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-25 applies only to a check or sight order issued on or after that
1-26 date.
1-27 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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