1-1 By: Hamric (Senate Sponsor - Ellis) H.B. No. 2034 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995; 1-3 May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 19, 1995, reported favorably by 1-5 the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 19, 1995, sent to 1-6 printer.) 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to the disbursement of emergency services district funds. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 775.073, Health and Safety Code, is 1-12 amended to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 775.073. METHOD OF PAYMENT. (a) District funds may be 1-14 disbursed only by check signed by the treasurer and countersigned 1-15 by the president. If the treasurer is absent or unavailable, the 1-16 assistant treasurer may sign for the treasurer. If the president 1-17 is absent or unavailable, the vice president may sign for the 1-18 president. 1-19 (b) An expenditure of more than $2,000 may not be paid from 1-20 tax money unless a sworn itemized account covering the expenditure 1-21 is presented to the board and the board approves the expenditure. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-28 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-29 * * * * *