By Lewis of Orange                              H.B. No. 1622

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to information published by the state auditor comparing

 1-3     expenditures by school districts.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 321, Government Code, is amended by

 1-6     adding Section 321.020 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 321.020.  SCHOOL DISTRICT EXPENDITURE INFORMATION.

 1-8     Before the State Auditor may publish information comparing

 1-9     expenditures by school districts, the comptroller must approve the

1-10     methodology the State Auditor proposes to use to make the

1-11     comparisons.  In making that approval decision, the comptroller

1-12     shall consult with the Texas Education Agency concerning the

1-13     accuracy of the proposed methodology.

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.