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By Glaze H.B. No. 2264
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 Relating to county requisition orders.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 113.901 of the Local Government Code is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 113.901. REQUIREMENTS FOR APPROVAL OF ACCOUNTS AND
1-7 REQUISITIONS (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a county
1-8 auditor may not audit or approve an account for the purchase of
1-9 supplies or materials for the use of the county or of a county
1-10 officer unless a requisition, signed by the officer ordering the
1-11 supplies or materials and approved by the county judge, is attached
1-12 to the account. The requisition requirement is in addition to any
1-13 other requirements of law.
1-14 (b) The requisition must be made, signed, and approved in
1-15 triplicate. The original must be delivered to the person from whom
1-16 the purchase is to be made before the purchase is made. The
1-17 duplicate copy must be filed with the county auditor. The
1-18 triplicate copy must remain with the officer requesting the
1-19 purchase.
1-20 (c) The commissioners court [county judge] of a county that
1-21 has the office of county auditor may, by a written order, waive the
1-22 requirement of the county judge's approval of requisitions. The
1-23 order must be recorded in the minutes of the commissioners court.
1-24 If the approval of the county judge is waived, all claims must be
2-1 approved by the commissioners court in open court.
2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.