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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