By:  Ellis (Senate Sponsor - Williams)                            H.B. No. 1767
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 2003; 
April 15, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Intergovernmental Relations; May 23, 2003, reported favorably by 
the following vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 23, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

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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