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. Subsection (d), Section 351.0415, Local
1-5 Government Code, is amended to hereafter read as follows:
1-6 (d) At least once each <quarter of a county's fiscal> county
1-7 fiscal year, or more often if the <county auditor> commissioner's
1-8 court 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 by suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.