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.