By:  Parra                                            H.B. No. 2574
       73R6756 JSA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to implementation of annual legislative sessions.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 301.001, Government Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 301.001.  Time of Meeting.  (a)  In each odd-numbered
    1-7  year, the <The> legislature shall convene in regular session at 12
    1-8  noon on the second Tuesday in January <of each odd-numbered year>.
    1-9        (b)  In each even-numbered year, the legislature shall
   1-10  convene in budget session at 12 noon on the first Tuesday in June.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  Section 403.121(a), Government Code, is amended
   1-12  to read as follows:
   1-13        (a)  In the statement required by Article III, Section 49a,
   1-14  of the Texas Constitution the comptroller shall list outstanding
   1-15  appropriations that may exist after the end of the current fiscal
   1-16  year but may not deduct them from the cash condition of the
   1-17  treasury or the anticipated revenues of the next fiscal year or
   1-18  biennium for the purpose of certification.  The comptroller shall
   1-19  base the reports, estimates, and certifications of available funds
   1-20  on the actual or estimated cash condition of the treasury and shall
   1-21  consider outstanding and undisbursed appropriations at the end of
   1-22  each fiscal year or biennium as probable disbursements of the
   1-23  succeeding fiscal year or biennium in the same manner that earned
   1-24  but uncollected income of a current fiscal year or biennium is
    2-1  considered in probable receipts of the succeeding fiscal year or
    2-2  biennium.  The comptroller shall consider as probable disbursements
    2-3  warrants that will be issued by the state before the end of the
    2-4  fiscal year.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect when the constitutional
    2-6  amendment proposed by the 73rd Legislature, providing for annual
    2-7  legislative sessions, is approved by the voters.  If that proposed
    2-8  constitutional amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act
    2-9  has no effect.
   2-10        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.