Bill Text: TX HB3590 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the acceptance of donations by a county commissioners court for the performance of certain functions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-22 - Referred to Elections [HB3590 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB3590-Introduced.html
  87R11267 SGM-D
 
  By: Swanson H.B. No. 3590
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the acceptance of donations by a county commissioners
  court for the performance of certain functions.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 81.032, Local Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 81.032.  ACCEPTANCE OF DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS.  The
  commissioners court may accept a donation of labor or services,
  gift, grant, donation, bequest, or devise of money or other
  property on behalf of the county, including a donation under
  Chapter 38, Government Code, for the purpose of performing a
  function conferred by law on the county or a county officer, except
  a commissioners court may not use a donation described by this
  section for the administration of an election.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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