By:  Bivins                                            S.B. No. 527
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to an automobile allowance paid to certain officers of the
    1-2  state or a political subdivision of the state.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 140.004, Local Government Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 140.004.  BUDGETS OF CERTAIN JUVENILE BOARDS AND
    1-7  COMMUNITY SUPERVISION AND CORRECTIONS <PROBATION> DEPARTMENTS.
    1-8  (a)  This section applies only to:
    1-9              (1)  a juvenile board, juvenile probation office, or
   1-10  juvenile department established for one or more counties;  and
   1-11              (2)  a community supervision and corrections <an adult
   1-12  probation office or> department established for a judicial
   1-13  district.
   1-14        (b)  Before the 45th day before the first day of the fiscal
   1-15  year of a county, a juvenile board and a community supervision and
   1-16  corrections <probation> department that each have jurisdiction in
   1-17  the county shall:
   1-18              (1)  prepare a budget for the board's or department's
   1-19  next fiscal year; and
   1-20              (2)  hold a meeting to finalize the budget.
   1-21        (c)  Before the 14th day before the juvenile board or
   1-22  community supervision and corrections <probation> department has a
   1-23  meeting to finalize its budget, the board or department shall file
   1-24  with the commissioners court:
    2-1              (1)  a copy of the proposed budget;  and
    2-2              (2)  a statement containing the date of the board's or
    2-3  department's meeting to finalize its budget.
    2-4        (d)  Before the later of the 90th day after the last day of
    2-5  the juvenile board's or community supervision and corrections
    2-6  <probation> department's fiscal year, or the date the county
    2-7  auditor's annual report is made to the commissioners court, the
    2-8  board or department shall file with the commissioners court a
    2-9  complete financial statement of the board or department covering
   2-10  the board's or department's preceding fiscal year.
   2-11        (e)  The financial statement required by Subsection (d) must
   2-12  contain any information considered appropriate by the juvenile
   2-13  board or community supervision and corrections <probation>
   2-14  department and any information required by the commissioners court
   2-15  of each county in which the board or department has jurisdiction.
   2-16        (f)  The budget for a juvenile board or community supervision
   2-17  and corrections department may not include an automobile allowance
   2-18  for a member of the governing body of the board or department if
   2-19  the member holds another state, county, or municipal office.  The
   2-20  budget may include reimbursement of actual travel expenses,
   2-21  including mileage for automobile travel, incurred while the member
   2-22  is engaged in the official business of the board or department.
   2-23        SECTION 2.  Section 391.011, Local Government Code, is
   2-24  amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
   2-25        (d)  A commission may not expend funds for an automobile
   2-26  allowance for a member of the governing body of the commission if
   2-27  the member holds another state, county, or municipal office.  Funds
    3-1  may be expended for reimbursement of actual travel expenses,
    3-2  including mileage for automobile travel, incurred while the member
    3-3  is engaged in the official business of the commission.
    3-4        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    3-5        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.