By:  Cain                                    S.B. No. 1551

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                                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.