BILL ANALYSIS


                                                         H.B. 751
                                               By: Horn (Sponsor)
                                      Intergovernmental Relations
                                                          4-20-95
                              Senate Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND

Currently, state law requires a county auditor to make audits of
the jail commissary on at least a quarterly basis.

PURPOSE

As proposed, H.B. 751 requires the auditor, at least once each
county fiscal year, or more often if the commissioners court
desires, without advance notice, to fully examine the jail
commissary accounts.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or
agency.

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 351.0415(d), Local Government Code, as
follows:

     (d) Requires the auditor, at least once each county fiscal
     year, or more often if the commissioners court desires,
     without advance notice, to fully examine the jail commissary
     accounts. Deletes the requirement of the auditor, at least
     once each quarter of a county's fiscal year, or more often if
     the county auditor desires, to examine the jail commissary
     accounts.
     
     SECTION 2.     Effective date: September 1, 1995.

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.