1-1  By:  Duncan (Senate Sponsor - Cain)                   H.B. No. 2449
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1995;
    1-3  May 16, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
    1-4  May 23, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 10,
    1-5  Nays 0; May 23, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the distribution of state agency binding encumbrance
    1-9  reports and state agency reports about utility audits.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 403.021(a), Government Code, is amended
   1-12  to read as follows:
   1-13        (a)  A state agency that expends appropriated funds shall
   1-14  submit a binding encumbrance report to the comptroller and<,> the
   1-15  state auditor<, and the Legislative Budget Office> no later than
   1-16  October 30 of each year.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  Section 5, Article 6252-5g, Revised Statutes, is
   1-18  amended to read as follows:
   1-19        Sec. 5.  During January and June of each year during which an
   1-20  audit is being conducted, the agency or institution shall submit to
   1-21  the <governor,> Legislative Budget Board<,> and comptroller a
   1-22  report on the status of the audit.  The report must include a
   1-23  summary of the costs of the audit, current audit activity, a
   1-24  schedule of future activity, audit recommendations and results,
   1-25  pending refunds, and recovered refunds.  Not later than the 30th
   1-26  day after the date an audit is completed, the agency or institution
   1-27  shall submit to the <governor,> Legislative Budget Board<,> and
   1-28  comptroller a report on the savings resulting from the audit,
   1-29  including their source, and the costs of the audit.
   1-30        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-31        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-32  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-33  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-34  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-35  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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