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.