By Armbrister S.B. No. 1121
75R7610 MLS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the approval of certain international travel by state
1-3 employees.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 660.024(a), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (a) The chief administrator of a state agency must give
1-8 advance written approval for any travel [Travel] related to
1-9 official state business for which a reimbursement for travel
1-10 expenses is claimed or for which an advance for travel expenses to
1-11 be incurred is sought [must have the advance written approval of
1-12 the governor]. A copy of the written approval and the travel
1-13 voucher shall be submitted to the comptroller.
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-15 applies only to travel expenses incurred or requests for travel
1-16 advances sought on or after the effective date of this Act. A
1-17 travel expense incurred or a travel advance sought before the
1-18 effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the
1-19 time the expense was incurred or advance sought, and that law is
1-20 continued in effect for that purpose.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.