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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