1-1 By: Hilderbran (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 2083
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 1997;
1-3 April 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 13, 1997, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 13, 1997, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to county auditors who serve more than one county.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 84.008(a), Local Government Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) Except as provided by Section 84.005, the [The]
1-14 commissioners courts of two or more counties [that each have a
1-15 population of less than 25,000] may agree to jointly employ and
1-16 compensate a county auditor.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.
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