1-1 By: Counts (Senate Sponsor - Sims) H.B. No. 684 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 18, 1993; 1-3 March 22, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; April 15, 1993, reported favorably by 1-5 the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 15, 1993, sent to 1-6 printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-9 Armbrister x 1-10 Leedom x 1-11 Carriker x 1-12 Henderson x 1-13 Madla x 1-14 Moncrief x 1-15 Patterson x 1-16 Rosson x 1-17 Shapiro x 1-18 Wentworth x 1-19 Whitmire x 1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-21 AN ACT 1-22 relating to the fiscal year of general-law municipalities. 1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-24 SECTION 1. Chapter 101, Local Government Code, is amended by 1-25 adding Subchapter C to read as follows: 1-26 SUBCHAPTER C. PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO GENERAL-LAW 1-27 MUNICIPALITIES 1-28 Sec. 101.041. MUNICIPALITY COVERED BY SUBCHAPTER. This 1-29 subchapter applies only to a general-law municipality. 1-30 Sec. 101.042. FISCAL YEAR. The governing body of the 1-31 municipality by ordinance may prescribe the fiscal year of the 1-32 municipality. 1-33 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-38 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-39 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-40 * * * * * 1-41 Austin, 1-42 Texas 1-43 April 15, 1993 1-44 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-45 President of the Senate 1-46 Sir: 1-47 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was 1-48 referred H.B. No. 684, have had the same under consideration, and I 1-49 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the 1-50 recommendation that it do pass and be printed. 1-51 Armbrister, 1-52 Chairman 1-53 * * * * * 1-54 WITNESSES 1-55 FOR AGAINST ON 1-56 ___________________________________________________________________ 1-57 Name: Susan Horton x 1-58 Representing: TML 1-59 City: Austin 1-60 -------------------------------------------------------------------