AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the requirements for posting a bond by a county
 1-2     treasurer.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 83.002, Local Government
 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  The county treasurer, before beginning to perform
 1-7     [entering upon] the duties of office [and within 20 days after the
 1-8     date the certificate of election is received], must execute a bond
 1-9     that must be approved by the commissioners court and made payable
1-10     to the county judge in an amount established by the commissioners
1-11     court.  The bond must be conditioned that the treasurer will:
1-12                 (1)  faithfully execute the duties of office;
1-13                 (2)  remit according to law all funds received as
1-14     county treasurer; and
1-15                 (3)  render an account of all funds received to the
1-16     commissioners court at each regular term of the court.
1-17           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-18     to a county treasurer who takes office on or after the effective
1-19     date of this Act.  A county treasurer who takes office before the
1-20     effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect
1-21     immediately before the effective date, and that law is continued in
1-22     effect for that purpose.
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 778 passed the Senate on
         March 25, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 778 passed the House on
         May 19, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor