1-1  By:  Torres (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)                  H.B. No. 1304
    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 management of petty cash in counties with a
   1-10  population  greater than 2,000,000.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 130, Local Government Code,
   1-13  is amended by adding Section 130.909 to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 130.909.  PETTY CASH FUNDS IN COUNTY WITH POPULATION OF
   1-15  MORE THAN 2,000,000.  (a)  The commissioners court of a county with
   1-16  a population of 2,000,000 or more may set aside from the general
   1-17  fund of the county an amount approved by the county auditor for the
   1-18  establishment of a petty cash fund for any county or district
   1-19  official or department head approved by the commissioners court.
   1-20  The petty cash fund must be established under a system provided and
   1-21  installed by the county auditor and the county purchasing agent
   1-22  with reports to be made to the auditor and the purchasing agent as
   1-23  the auditor and/or purchasing agent require.
   1-24        (b)  The bond of that county or district official or
   1-25  department head who receives such a petty cash fund must cover the
   1-26  official's responsibility for the correct accounting and
   1-27  disposition of the petty cash fund.
   1-28        (c)  The petty cash fund may not be used to make loans or
   1-29  advances or to cash checks or warrants of any kind.
   1-30        (d)  On the recommendation of the county auditor, the
   1-31  commissioners court may increase or decrease the petty cash fund at
   1-32  any time.
   1-33        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-34  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-35  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-36  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-37  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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