By: Cain S.B. No. 1551 97S0818/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to furnishing certain information necessary for preparing 1-2 county budgets. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 111.005, Local Government Code, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 111.005. INFORMATION FURNISHED BY COUNTY OFFICERS. 1-7 (a) In preparing the budget, the county judge may require any 1-8 county officer to furnish existing information necessary for the 1-9 judge to properly prepare the budget. 1-10 (b) If a county officer fails to provide information 1-11 requested by the county judge, the judge may request that the 1-12 commissioners court issue an order directing the county officer to 1-13 produce existing information necessary for the formation of a 1-14 budget in a form determined by the commissioners court. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.