S.B. No. 1445
                                        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.