By Wentworth S.B. No. 1800 75R8271 PAM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain expenditures and funds covered by a county 1-3 budget. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 111, Local Government Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Sections 111.0701, 111.0702, and 111.0703 to 1-7 read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 111.0701. BUDGET FOR EXPENDITURES FROM PROCEEDS OF 1-9 BONDS, CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION, OR ANTICIPATION WARRANTS. If a 1-10 county bond issue is submitted at an election or if certificates of 1-11 obligation or anticipation warrants are to be issued against future 1-12 revenues and a tax is to be levied for the certificates or 1-13 warrants, the commissioners court shall adopt a budget of proposed 1-14 expenditures. On receipt of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds, 1-15 certificates, or warrants, the county may make expenditures from 1-16 the proceeds in the manner provided by this subchapter for 1-17 expenditures for general purposes. 1-18 Sec. 111.0702. SPECIAL BUDGET FOR GRANT OR AID MONEY. The 1-19 county auditor shall certify to the commissioners court the receipt 1-20 of all public or private grant or aid money that is available for 1-21 disbursement in a fiscal year but not included in the budget for 1-22 that fiscal year. On certification, the court shall adopt a 1-23 special budget for the limited purpose of spending the grant or aid 1-24 money for its intended purpose. 2-1 Sec. 111.0703. SPECIAL BUDGET FOR REVENUE FROM 2-2 INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONTRACTS. The county auditor shall certify to 2-3 the commissioners court the receipt of all revenue from 2-4 intergovernmental contracts that is available for disbursement in a 2-5 fiscal year but not included in the budget for that fiscal year. 2-6 On certification, the court shall adopt a special budget for the 2-7 limited purpose of spending the revenue from intergovernmental 2-8 contracts for its intended purpose. 2-9 SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to 2-10 the budget procedures used by a county in preparing a budget for a 2-11 fiscal year beginning after the effective date of this Act. The 2-12 budget procedures used by a county in preparing a budget for a 2-13 fiscal year that begins before the effective date of this Act are 2-14 governed by the law in effect immediately before that date, and the 2-15 former law is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.