H.B. No. 2449
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the distribution of state agency binding encumbrance
    1-3  reports and state agency reports about utility audits.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 403.021(a), Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A state agency that expends appropriated funds shall
    1-8  submit a binding encumbrance report to the comptroller and<,> the
    1-9  state auditor<, and the Legislative Budget Office> no later than
   1-10  October 30 of each year.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  Section 5, Article 6252-5g, Revised Statutes, is
   1-12  amended to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 5.  During January and June of each year during which an
   1-14  audit is being conducted, the agency or institution shall submit to
   1-15  the <governor,> Legislative Budget Board<,> and comptroller a
   1-16  report on the status of the audit.  The report must include a
   1-17  summary of the costs of the audit, current audit activity, a
   1-18  schedule of future activity, audit recommendations and results,
   1-19  pending refunds, and recovered refunds.  Not later than the 30th
   1-20  day after the date an audit is completed, the agency or institution
   1-21  shall submit to the <governor,> Legislative Budget Board<,> and
   1-22  comptroller a report on the savings resulting from the audit,
   1-23  including their source, and the costs of the audit.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-1        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.