1-1 By: Madla S.B. No. 338
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 1, 1999; February 3, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; February 25, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 25, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the time at which the commissioners court of a county
1-9 must hold a hearing on a proposed budget.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 111.038, Local Government
1-12 Code, is 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 2. Subsection (b), Section 111.067, Local Government
1-18 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-19 (b) The commissioners court shall hold the hearing on a day
1-20 within 10 [seven] calendar days after the date the proposed budget
1-21 is filed but before the last day of the first month of the fiscal
1-22 year.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29 passage, and it is so enacted.
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