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. 1-24 * * * * *