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1	2		By: Bettencourt S.B. No. 2016
2		-	(In the Senate - Filed March 6, 2025; March 17, 2025, read
3		-	first time and referred to Committee on Local Government;
4		-	March 31, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4,
5		-	Nays 1; March 31, 2025, sent to printer.)
6		-	Click here to see the committee vote
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9	7		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	8		AN ACT
11	9		relating to the administration and operations of the state
12	10		auditor's office.
13	11		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	12		SECTION 1. Section 321.002(a), Government Code, is amended
15	13		to read as follows:
16	14		(a) The legislative audit committee consists of:
17	15		(1) the lieutenant governor;
18	16		(2) the speaker of the house of representatives;
19	17		(3) the chairman of the senate finance committee;
20	18		(4) three members [one member] of the senate appointed
21	19		by the lieutenant governor;
22	20		(5) the chairman of the house appropriations
23	21		committee; [and]
24	22		(6) the chairman of the house ways and means
25	23		committee; and
26	24		(7) two members of the house of representatives
27	25		appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.
28	26		SECTION 2. Section 321.004(b), Government Code, is amended
29	27		to read as follows:
30	28		(b) The eleventh [seventh] member's duty to the committee
31	29		ends when the member casts the tie-breaking vote and the matter is
32	30		resolved.
33	31		SECTION 3. Chapter 321, Government Code, is amended by
34	32		adding Section 321.0139 to read as follows:
35	33		Sec. 321.0139. AUDIT OF POPULOUS COUNTIES. (a) In this
36	34		section, "federal funds" means money received by a county from the
37	35		federal government as a result of an act of the United States
38	36		Congress.
39	37		(b) Not later than January 1, 2026, the State Auditor shall
40	38		conduct a one-time audit of each county in this state with a
41	39		population of one million or more concerning the use by the county
42	40		of federal funds received on or after January 1, 2021.
43	41		(c) The audit under this section is a compliance audit to
44	42		determine:
45	43		(1) whether the county has obligated, expended,
46	44		received, and used federal funds in accordance with the purpose for
47	45		which those funds were made available to the county;
48	46		(2) whether the county has obligated, expended,
49	47		received, and used federal funds in accordance with any
50	48		limitations, restrictions, conditions, or mandatory directions
51	49		imposed by law on those obligations, expenditures, receipts, or
52	50		uses;
53	51		(3) whether the records, books, and accounts of the
54	52		county fairly and accurately reflect the county's financial and
55	53		fiscal operations relating to the obligation, receipt,
56	54		expenditure, and use of federal funds;
57	55		(4) whether the collection of federal funds by the
58	56		county is in accordance with applicable laws and regulations; and
59	57		(5) whether federal funds received by the county from
60	58		the federal government and held by the county have been properly and
61	59		legally administered while in the county's custody.
62	60		(d) The State Auditor shall prepare a written audit report
63	61		for each audit conducted under this section in the manner required
64	62		by Section 321.014.
65	63		(e) This section expires January 1, 2027.
66	64		SECTION 4. As soon as practicable after the effective date
67	65		of this Act, the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house of
68	66		representatives shall appoint the additional members of the
69	67		legislative audit committee in accordance with Section 321.002(a),
70	68		Government Code, as amended by this Act.
71	69		SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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