By:  Armbrister                                       S.B. No. 1368
       73R2726 RWS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the itemization of certain pollution control
    1-3  expenditures in municipal budgets.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 102.003, Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  A municipality that enacts or enforces an ordinance
    1-8  controlling or abating air or water pollution within the
    1-9  municipality or its extraterritorial jurisdiction shall itemize, in
   1-10  its budget as provided by Subsection (a), all expenditures related
   1-11  to the implementation and enforcement of the ordinance.  The budget
   1-12  must include an additional itemization showing the proposed
   1-13  expenditures related to the control or abatement of air and water
   1-14  pollution and the actual expenditures for the same or similar
   1-15  purposes made for the preceding year in each geographical area in
   1-16  the municipality and its extraterritorial jurisdiction. For
   1-17  purposes of the additional itemization, the area comprising the
   1-18  municipality and its extraterritorial jurisdiction shall be divided
   1-19  into at least four geographical areas.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
   1-21  a municipal budget for a municipal fiscal year beginning on or
   1-22  after the 90th day after the effective date of this Act.  The
   1-23  changes in law made by this Act do not apply to a  municipal budget
   1-24  for a municipal fiscal year that began before the 90th day after
    2-1  the effective date of this Act, and the law in effect before the
    2-2  effective date of this Act is continued in effect for that purpose.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-8  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-9  passage, and it is so enacted.