By: Hughes S.B. No. 1357
(Dean)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to deadlines associated with proposing and adopting a
budget for certain counties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 111.003(a), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) Not later than August 15 [During the 7th or the 10th
month of the fiscal year, as determined by the commissioners
court], the county judge, assisted by the county auditor or county
clerk, shall prepare a budget to cover all proposed expenditures of
the county government for the succeeding fiscal year.
SECTION 2. Section 111.006(a), Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) Not later than August 15 [When the county judge has
completed the preparation of the budget], the county judge shall
file a copy of the proposed budget with the county clerk.
SECTION 3. Sections 111.007(b) and (c), Local Government
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(b) The commissioners court shall hold [set] the hearing not
later than the 25th [for a date after the 15th] day after [of the
month next following] the day [month in which] the budget is filed
under [was prepared in accordance with] Section 111.006 [111.003,
Local Government Code,] but before the commissioners court adopts
the county's ad valorem tax rate for the current tax year [date on
which taxes are levied by the court].
(c) The commissioners court shall give public notice that it
will consider the proposed budget on the date of the hearing. The
notice must state the date, time, and location of the hearing. The
notice must include, in type of a size at least equal to the type
used for other items in the notice, any statement required to be
included in the proposed budget under Section 111.003(b). The
commissioners court shall give notice under this subsection:
(1) not earlier than the 30th day before the date of
the hearing; and
(2) not later than the 10th day before the date of the
hearing.
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply to a
budget proposed by a county commissioners court for a fiscal year
beginning on or after the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 5. 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, 2021.