By: Ellis S.B. No. 2214
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a fee imposed on foreclosure filings to fund civil legal
  services to indigent Texans.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 118.011, Local Government Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
         (h)  A county clerk shall collect $150 for the filing of the
  first page of a notice filed pursuant to Section 51.002(b)(2) of the
  Property Code.  The county clerk shall keep a separate record of the
  money collected under this subsection and shall remit the funds to
  the county treasurer not later than the deadline specified by
  Section 113.022.  The county treasurer shall send the money
  received under this subsection to the comptroller not later than
  the last day of the month following each quarter.  The comptroller
  shall deposit the money received to the basic civil legal services
  fund of the supreme court.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a document presented for filing to a county clerk on or after the
  effective date of this Act.  A document presented for filing before
  the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed
  immediately before the effective date of this Act and that law is
  continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2009.