By: Patterson S.B. No. 1380
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to performance of the duties of a county budget officer.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 111.062, Local Government
1-4 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (b) A county that establishes the office of county budget
1-6 officer may abolish that office only by a formal action of the
1-7 commissioners court. The court must take the action after the
1-8 first day of the second month of the fiscal year and before the
1-9 first day of the sixth month of the fiscal year. If the office is
1-10 abolished, <the county auditor shall immediately assume> the duties
1-11 of budget officer shall be performed by:
1-12 (1) the county judge, if the county has a population
1-13 of 225,000 or less; or
1-14 (2) the county auditor, if the county has a population
1-15 of more than 225,000.
1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.