By Chisum                                             H.B. No. 2631
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to commissioners court approval of certain budgets.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 140.004, Local Government Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
    1-6        (f)  The budget required by Subsection (b) shall not increase
    1-7  the expenditure of county funds unless the increase is approved by
    1-8  the commissioners court.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-10        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.