By Cook H.B. No. 1874 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the filing of an affidavit supporting a criminal charge 1-3 based on the use of a check or similar sight order. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 21.22, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 21.22. INFORMATION BASED UPON COMPLAINT. (a) No 1-8 information shall be presented until affidavit has been made by 1-9 some credible person charging the defendant with an offense. The 1-10 affidavit shall be filed with the information. It may be sworn to 1-11 before the district or county attorney who, for that purpose, shall 1-12 have power to administer the oath, or it may be made before any 1-13 officer authorized by law to administer oaths. 1-14 (b) For purposes of this article, a credible person on whose 1-15 affidavit an information charging an offense under Chapter 31 or 1-16 32, Penal Code, involving a check or sight order may be presented 1-17 includes, in addition to the holder of the check or sight order, 1-18 the holder's assignee, agent, or representative or any other person 1-19 retained by the holder to seek collection of the check or sight 1-20 order. 1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 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.