By:  Moncrief                                 S.B. No. 515

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to certain unexpended balances of general revenue funds in

 1-2     regional library systems.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 441.131, Government Code, is amended by

 1-5     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

 1-6           (c)  All funds in excess of five percent of annual system

 1-7     operation grant general revenue funds unexpended by a regional

 1-8     library system at the end of the second quarter following the

 1-9     fiscal year in which they were granted must be refunded to the

1-10     commission with the quarterly financial status report.

1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.