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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