73R6749 T 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. Title 4, Subtitle C, Chapter 140, Section 1-5 140.004, Local Government Code, is amended by adding Subsection (f) 1-6 to read as follows: 1-7 (f) The budget required by Subsection (b) shall not increase 1-8 the expenditure of county funds unless the increase is approved by 1-9 the commissioners court. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.