By:  Cain                                    S.B. No. 1552

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to county requisition orders.

 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 113.901, Local Government

 1-4     Code, is amended to read as follows:

 1-5           (c)  The commissioners court [county judge] of a county that

 1-6     has the office of county auditor may, by a written order, waive the

 1-7     requirement of the county judge's approval of requisitions.  The

 1-8     order must be recorded in the minutes of the commissioners court.

 1-9     If the approval of the county judge is waived, all claims must be

1-10     approved by the commissioners court in open court.

1-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-17     passage, and it is so enacted.