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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.