78R5694 ATP-D

By:  Ellis                                                        H.B. No. 1767



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the approval of certain expenditures by an incumbent 
county commissioner who was not reelected.
	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 
COMMISSIONERS.  If a person other than an incumbent county 
commissioner is elected to the office of county commissioner of a 
county with a population of less than 100,000 [50,000], during the 
time following the date the results of the official canvass of the 
election returns are announced, the commissioners court must 
approve any expenditure [expenditures] by the incumbent county 
commissioner who was not reelected that is over an amount set by the 
commissioners court.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.