Bill Text: TX SB622 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to itemizing certain public notice expenditures in certain political subdivision budgets.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective immediately [SB622 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB622-Comm_Sub.html

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85R25196 PAM-D
By: Burton, et al. S.B. No. 622
(Lozano)
Substitute the following for S.B. No. 622: No.

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to itemizing certain public notice expenditures in certain
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 CERTAIN POLITICAL SUBDIVISION BUDGETS.
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), 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.
(b) This section does not apply to a junior college
district.
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.