By: Rosson S.B. No. 1445 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the establishment of fiscal years in certain 1-2 municipalities. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 101, Local Government Code, 1-5 is amended by adding Section 101.0221 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 101.0221. FISCAL YEAR FOR CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. 1-7 Notwithstanding any fiscal year provision in the city charter, a 1-8 municipality with a population in excess of 500,000 which is 1-9 situated in a county bordering the Republic of Mexico may prescribe 1-10 its fiscal year by ordinance. 1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.