H.B. No. 1767




AN ACT

relating to the approval of expenditures of certain incumbent 
county or precinct officers.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 130.908, Local Government Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 130.908.  APPROVAL OF SPENDING BY CERTAIN COUNTY AND 
PRECINCT OFFICERS [COMMISSIONERS].  If [a person other than] an 
incumbent county or precinct officer [commissioner] is not 
renominated or is not reelected [elected] to the county or precinct 
office [of county commissioner] of a county [with a population of 
less than 50,000], during the time following the date the results of 
the official canvass of the primary or election returns are 
announced, the commissioners court must approve any expenditure
[expenditures] by the incumbent county or precinct officer 
[commissioner] who was not renominated or reelected that is over an 
amount set by the commissioners court.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 1767 was passed by the House on April 
10, 2003, by a non-record vote.

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                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 1767 was passed by the Senate on May 
28, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor