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.