Amend CSHB 2446 by striking all below the enacting clause and
substituting the following:
      SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 403.026 to read as follows:
      Sec. 403.026.  PERFORMANCE AUDIT OF CERTAIN TRANSIT
AUTHORITIES.  (a)  This section applies only to a transit authority
that:
            (1)  is governed by Chapter 451, Transportation Code;
            (2)  was confirmed before July 1, 1985; and
            (3)  does not contain a municipality with a population
of more than 750,000.
      (b)  The comptroller may, on the request of an entity listed
in Subsection (c), enter into an interlocal contract under Chapter
791 with a transit authority to conduct a performance audit to
determine whether the authority is effectively and efficiently
providing the services it was created to provide.   The comptroller
shall report the findings of an audit conducted under this section
and make appropriate recommendations on changes in the operations
of the authority to the governing body of the authority.
      (c)  A performance audit under this section may be requested
by:
            (1)  the governing body of the transit authority;
            (2)  the governing body of the municipality with the
largest population in the authority; or
            (3)  the commissioners court in which the majority of
the area of the municipality described in Subdivision (2) is
located.
      (d)  A contract under Subsection (b) shall provide that the
authority will reimburse the comptroller for costs incurred in
conducting the audit.
      (e)  The comptroller shall file a report containing the
results of an audit performed under this section with the governor,
the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of
representatives, and the presiding officers of the committees of
the senate and the house of representatives responsible for
approving legislation governing the authority.
      (f)  An audit may not be conducted under this section more
often than once every two years.
      SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
passage, and it is so enacted.