By Madla                                         S.B. No. 205

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the period covered by a county report of its

 1-3     expenditure of funds required to be used for highways.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 256, Transportation Code,

 1-6     is amended by adding Section 256.009 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 256.009.  REPORT TO COMPTROLLER.  (a)  Not later than

 1-8     January 30 of each year, the county auditor or, if the county does

 1-9     not have a county auditor, the official having the duties of the

1-10     county auditor shall file a report with the comptroller stating the

1-11     total amount of expenditures for county road and bridge

1-12     construction, maintenance, rehabilitation, right-of-way

1-13     acquisition, and utility construction and other appropriate road

1-14     expenditures of county funds in the preceding county fiscal year

1-15     that are required by the constitution or other law to be spent on

1-16     public roads or highways.  The report must be in a form prescribed

1-17     by the comptroller.

1-18           (b)  The comptroller may distribute money under Section

1-19     256.002(a) to a county only if the most recent report required by

1-20     Subsection (a) has been filed.

1-21           SECTION 2.  In addition to the substantive changes made by

1-22     this Act, this Act conforms Subchapter A, Chapter 256,

1-23     Transportation Code, to Section 1, Chapter 568, Acts of the 74th

1-24     Legislature, 1995.  To the extent of any conflict, this Act

 2-1     prevails over another Act of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session,

 2-2     1997, relating to nonsubstantive additions and amendments to

 2-3     enacted codes.

 2-4           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.