By: Counts H.B. No. 684 73R29 SOS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the fiscal year of general-law municipalities. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 101, Local Government Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subchapter C to read as follows: 1-6 SUBCHAPTER C. PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO GENERAL-LAW 1-7 MUNICIPALITIES 1-8 Sec. 101.041. MUNICIPALITY COVERED BY SUBCHAPTER. This 1-9 subchapter applies only to a general-law municipality. 1-10 Sec. 101.042. FISCAL YEAR. The governing body of the 1-11 municipality by ordinance may prescribe the fiscal year of the 1-12 municipality. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.