1-1           By:  Madla                                       S.B. No. 205

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 15, 1997; January 16, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; February 6, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; February 6, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the period covered by a county report of its

 1-9     expenditure of funds required to be used for highways.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 256, Transportation Code,

1-12     is amended by adding Section 256.009 to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 256.009.  REPORT TO COMPTROLLER.  (a)  Not later than

1-14     January 30 of each year, the county auditor or, if the county does

1-15     not have a county auditor, the official having the duties of the

1-16     county auditor shall file a report with the comptroller stating the

1-17     total amount of expenditures for county road and bridge

1-18     construction, maintenance, rehabilitation, right-of-way

1-19     acquisition, and utility construction and other appropriate road

1-20     expenditures of county funds in the preceding county fiscal year

1-21     that are required by the constitution or other law to be spent on

1-22     public roads or highways.  The report must be in a form prescribed

1-23     by the comptroller.

1-24           (b)  The comptroller may distribute money under Section

1-25     256.002(a) to a county only if the most recent report required by

1-26     Subsection (a) has been filed.

1-27           SECTION 2.  In addition to the substantive changes made by

1-28     this Act, this Act conforms Subchapter A, Chapter 256,

1-29     Transportation Code, to Section 1, Chapter 568, Acts of the 74th

1-30     Legislature, 1995.  To the extent of any conflict, this Act

1-31     prevails over another Act of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session,

1-32     1997, relating to nonsubstantive additions and amendments to

1-33     enacted codes.

1-34           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-35     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-36     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-37     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-38     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-39     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-40     passage, and it is so enacted.

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