1-1     By:  Dunnam (Senate Sponsor - Shapleigh)              H.B. No. 2517

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 1997;

 1-3     May 2, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Education; May 18, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable

 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0;

 1-6     May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2517                  By:  Fraser

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the audit of public junior college districts.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Chapter 321, Government Code, is amended by

1-13     adding Section 321.0137 to read as follows:

1-14           Sec. 321.0137.  INDEPENDENT AUDIT OF JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT.

1-15     (a)  At a reasonable time in advance of an independent audit of a

1-16     junior college district, the state auditor shall provide the

1-17     presiding officer of the district's governing body and the chief

1-18     executive officer of the district with written information relating

1-19     to the procedures for and scope of the audit.  The state auditor

1-20     shall include in the materials information describing:

1-21                 (1)  how the appropriate representatives of the

1-22     district may participate in the audit planning process; and

1-23                 (2)  how the district may request information or

1-24     assistance in preparing for the audit from the state auditor.

1-25           (b)  The state auditor shall seek the recommendations of the

1-26     Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in preparing materials to

1-27     be provided under Subsection (a).

1-28           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-29           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-30     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-31     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-32     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-33     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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