By Denny                                              H.J.R. No. 40
       74R2644 CAG-D
                                  A JOINT RESOLUTION
    1-1  proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the abolition of the
    1-2  office of county treasurer in Rockwall County.
    1-3        BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 44, Article XVI, Texas
    1-5  Constitution, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (d)  The office of County Treasurer in the counties of  El
    1-7  Paso, <and> Fayette, and Rockwall  is abolished.  In El Paso
    1-8  County, the Commissioners Court may employ or contract with a
    1-9  qualified person or may designate another county officer to perform
   1-10  any of the functions that would have been performed by the County
   1-11  Treasurer if the office had not been abolished.  In Fayette County,
   1-12  the functions of the abolished office are transferred to the County
   1-13  Auditor or to the officer who succeeds to the auditor's functions.
   1-14  In Rockwall County, the powers, duties, and functions of the office
   1-15  are transferred to an elected official or the County Auditor as
   1-16  designated by the Commissioners Court, and the Commissioners Court
   1-17  may from time to time change its designation as it considers
   1-18  appropriate.  However, the office of County Treasurer in El Paso,
   1-19  <or> Fayette, or Rockwall County is abolished under this subsection
   1-20  only if, at the statewide election at which the constitutional
   1-21  amendment providing for the abolition of the office in that county
   1-22  is submitted to the voters, a majority of the voters of that county
   1-23  voting on the question at that election favor the amendment.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  The following temporary provision is added to the
    2-1  Texas Constitution:
    2-2        TEMPORARY PROVISION.  The abolition of the office of county
    2-3  treasurer in Rockwall County under the constitutional amendment
    2-4  proposed by the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, providing
    2-5  for the abolition of that office in that county takes effect
    2-6  January 1, 1996, if the conditions of Subsection (d), Section 44,
    2-7  Article XVI, as amended by that constitutional amendment, are met.
    2-8  This provision expires January 2, 1996.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be
   2-10  submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 7, 1995.
   2-11  The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the
   2-12  proposition:  "The constitutional amendment providing for the
   2-13  abolition of the office of county treasurer in Rockwall County."