By Wentworth                                          S.B. No. 1463
       74R4449 PAM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to performance audits of county officers, district
    1-3  attorneys, county offices, and district attorney offices.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 115, Local Government Code,
    1-6  is amended by adding Section 115.005 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 115.005.  PERFORMANCE AUDITS OF COUNTY OFFICERS,
    1-8  DISTRICT ATTORNEYS, COUNTY OFFICES, AND DISTRICT ATTORNEY OFFICES.
    1-9  (a)  In this section:
   1-10              (1)  "County officer" means a person who is:
   1-11                    (A)  elected to an office of a county for which
   1-12  the term prescribed by law is four years; or
   1-13                    (B)  appointed to fill a vacancy in an office of
   1-14  a county that is normally filled by election and for which the term
   1-15  prescribed by law is four years.
   1-16              (2)  "County office" means the office of a county
   1-17  officer.
   1-18        (b)  On request of the commissioners court, the county
   1-19  auditor shall conduct a performance audit of a county officer,
   1-20  district attorney, county office, or district attorney's office
   1-21  during the third year of the county officer's or district
   1-22  attorney's term.
   1-23        (c)  The performance audit must provide evaluative
   1-24  information to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the
    2-1  audited county officer, district attorney, county office, or
    2-2  district attorney's office.
    2-3        (d)  The county auditor shall provide a written report of the
    2-4  performance audit to the audited officer, the audited office, and
    2-5  the commissioners court.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-11  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-12  passage, and it is so enacted.