Bill Text: TX HB2322 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of certain payments by a community supervision and corrections department.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-16 - Left pending in committee [HB2322 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2322-Introduced.html
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By: White of Tyler | H.B. No. 2322 |
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relating to the issuance of certain payments by a community | ||
supervision and corrections department. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 76.004(c), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c) The judges described by Section 76.002 may appoint for | ||
the department a fiscal officer, other than the county auditor. The | ||
fiscal officer is responsible for: | ||
(1) managing and protecting funds, fees, state aid, | ||
and receipts to the same extent that a county auditor manages county | ||
funds and funds of other local entities; | ||
(2) ensuring that financial transactions of the | ||
department are lawful and allowable; [ |
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(3) prescribing accounting procedures for the | ||
department; and | ||
(4) approving, processing, and signing warrants on | ||
department funds deposited in the county treasury. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 113.043, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 113.043. COUNTERSIGNATURE BY COUNTY AUDITOR. In a | ||
county with a county auditor, the county treasurer and the county | ||
depository may not pay a check or order for payment unless it is | ||
countersigned by the county auditor to validate it as a proper and | ||
budgeted item of expenditure. This section does not apply to a check | ||
or order: | ||
(1) for jury service or for restitution collected on | ||
behalf of an individual as authorized by law; or | ||
(2) drawn against funds of a community supervision and | ||
corrections department that has a fiscal officer appointed under | ||
Section 76.004(c), Government Code. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |