By Maxey H.B. No. 1208 75R2842 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to electronically processing travel expense reimbursement 1-3 vouchers for state officers and employees. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 660.041, Government Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 660.041. TRAVEL EXPENSE FORM. (a) The comptroller shall 1-8 prescribe the form on which a travel expense is to be submitted. 1-9 (b) The comptroller may allow or require the form to be 1-10 submitted electronically without accompanying receipts or other 1-11 records. The comptroller may require that certain receipts or other 1-12 records that document the travel expenses be retained for a period 1-13 prescribed by the comptroller for auditing purposes. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.