AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the time at which the commissioners court of a county
 1-2     must hold a hearing on a proposed budget.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 111.038, Local Government
 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  The commissioners court shall hold the hearing on a day
 1-7     within 10 [seven] calendar days after the date the proposed budget
 1-8     is filed but before the last day of the first month of the fiscal
 1-9     year.
1-10           SECTION 2.  Subsection (b), Section 111.067, Local Government
1-11     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-12           (b)  The commissioners court shall hold the hearing on a day
1-13     within 10 [seven] calendar days after the date the proposed budget
1-14     is filed but before the last day of the first month of the fiscal
1-15     year.
1-16           SECTION 3.  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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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 338 passed the Senate on
         March 11, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 338 passed the House on
         May 26, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, two present
         not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor