1-1  By:  Horn (Senate Sponsor - Nelson)                    H.B. No. 751
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 1995;
    1-3  April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; April 19, 1995, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 19, 1995, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to the auditing of county jails.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 351.0415(d), Local Government Code, is
   1-12  amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (d)  At least once each county fiscal <quarter of a county's
   1-14  fiscal> year, or more often if the commissioners court <county
   1-15  auditor> desires, the auditor shall, without advance notice, fully
   1-16  examine the jail commissary accounts.  The auditor shall verify the
   1-17  correctness of the accounts and report the findings of the
   1-18  examination to the commissioners court of the county at its next
   1-19  term beginning after the date the audit is completed.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-25  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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