1-1 By: Rosson S.B. No. 1445 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 28, 1993; April 29, 1993, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; April 30, 1993, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 30, 1993, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-8 Armbrister x 1-9 Leedom x 1-10 Carriker x 1-11 Henderson x 1-12 Madla x 1-13 Moncrief x 1-14 Patterson x 1-15 Rosson x 1-16 Shapiro x 1-17 Wentworth x 1-18 Whitmire x 1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-20 AN ACT 1-21 relating to the establishment of fiscal years in certain 1-22 municipalities. 1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-24 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 101, Local Government Code, 1-25 is amended by adding Section 101.0221 to read as follows: 1-26 Sec. 101.0221. FISCAL YEAR FOR CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. 1-27 Notwithstanding any fiscal year provision in the city charter, a 1-28 municipality with a population in excess of 500,000 which is 1-29 situated in a county bordering the Republic of Mexico may prescribe 1-30 its fiscal year by ordinance. 1-31 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-36 * * * * * 1-37 Austin, 1-38 Texas 1-39 April 30, 1993 1-40 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-41 President of the Senate 1-42 Sir: 1-43 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was 1-44 referred S.B. No. 1445, have had the same under consideration, and 1-45 I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the 1-46 recommendation that it do pass and be printed. 1-47 Armbrister, 1-48 Chairman 1-49 * * * * * 1-50 WITNESSES 1-51 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 1445.