1-1     By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 479
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 11, 1999; February 15, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     March 1, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 1, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the fee for the electronic filing of a financing
 1-9     statement with the secretary of state.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter D, Chapter 9, Business & Commerce
1-12     Code, is amended by adding Section 9.4095 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 9.4095.  FEE FOR ELECTRONIC FILING.  The fee for filing,
1-14     indexing, and returning an electronic confirmation of a financing
1-15     statement or other filing transmitted electronically in accordance
1-16     with rules adopted under this subchapter is $5.
1-17           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.
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