By Greenberg H.B. No. 67 76R1024 DRH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring certain metropolitan transit authorities to 1-3 employ an internal auditor. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 451, Transportation Code, 1-6 is amended by adding Section 451.1065 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 451.1065. AUDITOR REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN AUTHORITIES. An 1-8 authority governed by a board appointed under Section 451.5021 1-9 shall employ as a part of its permanent staff an internal auditor. 1-10 SECTION 2. An authority required by Section 451.1065, 1-11 Transportation Code, as added by this Act, to employ an internal 1-12 auditor shall employ the auditor not later than January 1, 2000. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.