By: Madla S.B. No. 778
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.