Bill Text: TX SB2016 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the administration and operations of the state auditor's office.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-31 - Committee report printed and distributed [SB2016 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB2016-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Bettencourt | S.B. No. 2016 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2025; March 17, 2025, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on Local Government; | ||
| March 31, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4, | ||
| Nays 1; March 31, 2025, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to the administration and operations of the state | ||
| auditor's office. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 321.002(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The legislative audit committee consists of: | ||
| (1) the lieutenant governor; | ||
| (2) the speaker of the house of representatives; | ||
| (3) the chairman of the senate finance committee; | ||
| (4) three members [ |
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| by the lieutenant governor; | ||
| (5) the chairman of the house appropriations | ||
| committee; [ |
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| (6) the chairman of the house ways and means | ||
| committee; and | ||
| (7) two members of the house of representatives | ||
| appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 321.004(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b) The eleventh [ |
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| ends when the member casts the tie-breaking vote and the matter is | ||
| resolved. | ||
| SECTION 3. Chapter 321, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 321.0139 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 321.0139. AUDIT OF POPULOUS COUNTIES. (a) In this | ||
| section, "federal funds" means money received by a county from the | ||
| federal government as a result of an act of the United States | ||
| Congress. | ||
| (b) Not later than January 1, 2026, the State Auditor shall | ||
| conduct a one-time audit of each county in this state with a | ||
| population of one million or more concerning the use by the county | ||
| of federal funds received on or after January 1, 2021. | ||
| (c) The audit under this section is a compliance audit to | ||
| determine: | ||
| (1) whether the county has obligated, expended, | ||
| received, and used federal funds in accordance with the purpose for | ||
| which those funds were made available to the county; | ||
| (2) whether the county has obligated, expended, | ||
| received, and used federal funds in accordance with any | ||
| limitations, restrictions, conditions, or mandatory directions | ||
| imposed by law on those obligations, expenditures, receipts, or | ||
| uses; | ||
| (3) whether the records, books, and accounts of the | ||
| county fairly and accurately reflect the county's financial and | ||
| fiscal operations relating to the obligation, receipt, | ||
| expenditure, and use of federal funds; | ||
| (4) whether the collection of federal funds by the | ||
| county is in accordance with applicable laws and regulations; and | ||
| (5) whether federal funds received by the county from | ||
| the federal government and held by the county have been properly and | ||
| legally administered while in the county's custody. | ||
| (d) The State Auditor shall prepare a written audit report | ||
| for each audit conducted under this section in the manner required | ||
| by Section 321.014. | ||
| (e) This section expires January 1, 2027. | ||
| SECTION 4. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house of | ||
| representatives shall appoint the additional members of the | ||
| legislative audit committee in accordance with Section 321.002(a), | ||
| Government Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
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