By Madla                                               S.B. No. 338
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                                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.