By Hamric H.B. No. 2034 74R6672 CLG-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the disbursement of emergency services district funds. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 775.073, Health and Safety Code, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 775.073. METHOD OF PAYMENT. (a) District funds may be 1-7 disbursed only by check signed by the treasurer and countersigned 1-8 by the president. If the treasurer is absent or unavailable, the 1-9 assistant treasurer may sign for the treasurer. If the president 1-10 is absent or unavailable, the vice president may sign for the 1-11 president. 1-12 (b) An expenditure of more than $2,000 may not be paid from 1-13 tax money unless a sworn itemized account covering the expenditure 1-14 is presented to the board and the board approves the expenditure. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.