By Horn H.B. No. 751
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the auditing of county jails.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 351.0415(d), Local Government Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (d) At least once each county fiscal <quarter of a county's
1-7 fiscal> year, or more often if the commissioners court <county
1-8 auditor> desires, the auditor shall, without advance notice, fully
1-9 examine the jail commissary accounts. The auditor shall verify the
1-10 correctness of the accounts and report the findings of the
1-11 examination to the commissioners court of the county at its next
1-12 term beginning after the date the audit is completed.
1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.