By Keel                                               H.B. No. 1219
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the accounting system in certain counties.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 112.002, Local Government Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
 1-6           (c)  A regulation adopted under this section may not be
 1-7     inconsistent with generally accepted accounting principles as
 1-8     established by the  Governmental Accounting Standards Board.
 1-9           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act applies only to a regulation
1-10     adopted by a county on or after the first day of the county's
1-11     fiscal year that begins on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-12           (b)  A regulation adopted by a county before the first day of
1-13     the county's fiscal year that begins on or after the effective date
1-14     of this Act is covered by the law in effect immediately before the
1-15     effective date of this Act, and the former law continues in effect
1-16     for that purpose.
1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.