BILL ANALYSIS

Senate Research Center                                                                                                     H.B. 1780

80R10618 MSE-F                                                                                                By: Harless (West)

Intergovernmental Relations

4/21/2007

Engrossed

AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT

Currently, the Government Code and the Local Government Code provide conflicting requirements for the number of commissary audits that are to be performed each year.

H.B. 1780 conforms the commissary audit requirements of the Government Code to the Local Government Code, requiring such an audit to be performed at least once per fiscal year.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency.

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 511.016(a), Government Code, to require each county auditor to provide the Commission on Jail Standards with a copy of each audit, rather than the auditor's quarterly audit, of the county jail's commissary operations the auditor performs under Section 351.0415, Local Government Code, and a copy of the annual financial audit of general operations of the county jail within a certain timeframe.

SECTION 2. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2007.