By: Bernsen S.B. No. 1674 99S0512/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to performance audits of the Montgomery County Hospital 1-2 District. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 258, Acts of the 65th Legislature, 1-5 Regular Session, 1977, is amended by adding Section 17A to read as 1-6 follows: 1-7 Sec. 17A. (a) The district and the comptroller may, on the 1-8 request of an entity listed in Subsection (b) of this section, 1-9 enter into a contract to provide for a performance audit of the 1-10 district by the comptroller to determine whether the district is 1-11 effectively and efficiently providing the services it was created 1-12 to provide. The comptroller shall report the findings of an audit 1-13 conducted under this section and make appropriate recommendations 1-14 on changes in the operations of the district to the board of 1-15 directors of the district. 1-16 (b) A performance audit under this section may be requested 1-17 by: 1-18 (1) the board of directors of the district; 1-19 (2) the governing body of the municipality with the 1-20 largest population in the district; or 1-21 (3) the Commissioners Court of Montgomery County. 1-22 (c) A contract under Subsection (a) of this section shall 1-23 provide that the district will reimburse the comptroller for costs 1-24 incurred in conducting the audit. 2-1 (d) The comptroller shall file a report containing the 2-2 results of an audit performed under this section with the governor, 2-3 the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of 2-4 representatives, and the presiding officers of the committees of 2-5 the senate and the house of representatives responsible for 2-6 approving legislation governing the district. 2-7 (e) An audit may not be conducted under this section more 2-8 often than once every two years. 2-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.