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.