By: Patterson, Jerry S.B. No. 1380
73R8367 DWS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to performance of the duties of a county budget officer.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 111.062(b), Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) A county that establishes the office of county budget
1-7 officer may abolish that office only by a formal action of the
1-8 commissioners court. The court must take the action after the
1-9 first day of the second month of the fiscal year and before the
1-10 first day of the sixth month of the fiscal year. If the office is
1-11 abolished, <the county auditor shall immediately assume> the duties
1-12 of budget officer shall be performed by:
1-13 (1) the county judge, if the county has a population
1-14 of 225,000 or less; or
1-15 (2) the county auditor, if the county has a population
1-16 of more than 225,000.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.