1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to performance audits of certain metropolitan transit 1-3 authorities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 403.026 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 403.026. PERFORMANCE AUDIT OF CERTAIN TRANSIT 1-8 AUTHORITIES. (a) This section applies only to a transit authority 1-9 that is governed by Chapter 451, Transportation Code, and was 1-10 confirmed before July 1, 1985, and does not contain a municipality 1-11 of more than 750,000. 1-12 (b) The comptroller may, on the request of an entity listed 1-13 in Subsection (c), enter into an interlocal contract under Chapter 1-14 791 with a transit authority to conduct a performance audit to 1-15 determine whether the authority is effectively and efficiently 1-16 providing the services it was created to provide. The comptroller 1-17 shall report the findings of an audit conducted under this section 1-18 and make appropriate recommendations on changes in the operations 1-19 of the authority to the governing body of the authority. 1-20 (c) A performance audit under this section may be requested 1-21 by: 1-22 (1) the governing body of the transit authority; 1-23 (2) the governing body of the municipality with the 1-24 largest population in the authority; or 2-1 (3) the commissioners court in which the majority of 2-2 the area of the municipality described in Subdivision (2) is 2-3 located. 2-4 (d) A contract under Subsection (b) shall provide that the 2-5 authority will reimburse the comptroller for costs incurred in 2-6 conducting the audit. 2-7 (e) The comptroller shall file a report containing the 2-8 results of an audit performed under this section with the governor, 2-9 the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of 2-10 representatives, and the presiding officers of the committees of 2-11 the senate and the house of representatives responsible for 2-12 approving legislation governing the authority. 2-13 (f) An audit may not be conducted under this section more 2-14 often than once every two years. 2-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-21 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2446 was passed by the House on April 30, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. No. 2446 on May 21, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 2446 was passed by the Senate, with amendments, on May 19, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor