Sec. 37.006.  FINANCIAL MORATORIUM.  (a)  The banking commissioner, with the approval of a majority of the finance commission and the governor, may proclaim a financial moratorium for, and invoke a uniform limitation on, withdrawal of deposits of every character from all banks within this state.  A bank refusing to comply with a written proclamation of the banking commissioner under this section, signed by a majority of the members of the finance commission and the governor:
(1)  forfeits its charter if it is a state bank;  or
(2)  may not act as reserve agent for a state bank or as depository of state, county, municipal, or other public money if it is a national bank.
(b)  On order of the banking commissioner after refusal of a national bank to comply with the proclamation, a depositor of public money with the bank:
(1)  shall immediately withdraw the public money from the bank;  and
(2)  may not redeposit public money in the bank without the banking commissioner's prior written approval.
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1008, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.