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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