By:  Vowell                                           H.B. No. 2868
       73R6423 T
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the establishment of fiscal years in certain
    1-3  municipalities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Local Government Code, is amended
    1-6  by adding Section 101.0221 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 101.0221.  FISCAL YEAR FOR CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.
    1-8  Notwithstanding any fiscal year provision in the city charter, a
    1-9  municipality with a population in excess of 500,000 which is
   1-10  situated in a county bordering the Republic of Mexico may prescribe
   1-11  its fiscal year by ordinance.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three separate
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.