1-1 By: Madla S.B. No. 778
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 2, 1999; March 3, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; March 18, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 18, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the requirements for posting a bond by a county
1-9 treasurer.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 83.002, Local Government
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) The county treasurer, before beginning to perform
1-14 [entering upon] the duties of office [and within 20 days after the
1-15 date the certificate of election is received], must execute a bond
1-16 that must be approved by the commissioners court and made payable
1-17 to the county judge in an amount established by the commissioners
1-18 court. The bond must be conditioned that the treasurer will:
1-19 (1) faithfully execute the duties of office;
1-20 (2) remit according to law all funds received as
1-21 county treasurer; and
1-22 (3) render an account of all funds received to the
1-23 commissioners court at each regular term of the court.
1-24 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-25 to a county treasurer who takes office on or after the effective
1-26 date of this Act. A county treasurer who takes office before the
1-27 effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect
1-28 immediately before the effective date, and that law is continued in
1-29 effect for that purpose.
1-30 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-35 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-36 passage, and it is so enacted.
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