By Wentworth                                    S.B. No. 1800

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                                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.