By: Madla S.B. No. 779 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the payment of ad valorem taxes by electronic funds 1-2 transfer. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 31.06, Tax Code, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) Except as provided by Section 31.061, taxes are payable 1-7 only in currency of the United States. However, a collector may 1-8 accept a check or money order in payment of taxes, and may accept 1-9 payment by credit card or electronic funds transfer. A collector 1-10 and a person may enter into an agreement under which the person 1-11 pays taxes by electronic funds transfer. The agreement must: 1-12 (1) be in writing; 1-13 (2) be signed by the collector and the person; and 1-14 (3) specify the means or format of payment by 1-15 electronic funds transfer. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.