By Madla S.B. No. 338
76R3017 SMJ-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the time at which the commissioners court of a county
1-3 must hold a hearing on a proposed budget.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 111.038(b), Local Government Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (b) The commissioners court shall hold the hearing on a day
1-8 within 10 [seven] calendar days after the date the proposed budget
1-9 is filed but before the last day of the first month of the fiscal
1-10 year.
1-11 SECTION 2. Section 111.067(b), Local Government Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) The commissioners court shall hold the hearing on a day
1-14 within 10 [seven] calendar days after the date the proposed budget
1-15 is filed but before the last day of the first month of the fiscal
1-16 year.
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.