Bill Text: TX HB1596 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to itemizing certain public notice expenditures in political subdivision budgets.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-09 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1596 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1596-Introduced.html
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By: Lozano | H.B. No. 1596 |
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relating to itemizing certain public notice expenditures in | ||
political subdivision budgets. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 140, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 140.0045 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 140.0045. ITEMIZATION OF CERTAIN PUBLIC NOTICE | ||
EXPENDITURES REQUIRED IN POLITICAL SUBDIVISION BUDGETS. The | ||
proposed budget of a political subdivision must include a line item | ||
indicating expenditures for notices required by law to be published | ||
in a newspaper by the political subdivision or a representative of | ||
the political subdivision that allows as clear a comparison as | ||
practicable between those expenditures in the proposed budget and | ||
actual expenditures for the same purpose in the preceding year. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by Section 140.0045, Local | ||
Government Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a proposed | ||
budget for a fiscal year beginning on or after January 1, 2018. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |