1-1     By:  Wentworth                                        S.B. No. 1796

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental

 1-4     Relations; April 10, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 10, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to county auditors who serve more than one county.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 84.008, Local Government

1-11     Code, is amended to read as follows:

1-12           (a)  Except as provided by Section 84.005, the [The]

1-13     commissioners courts of two or more counties [that each have a

1-14     population of less than 25,000] may agree to jointly employ and

1-15     compensate a county auditor.

1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.

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