89R15907 BEF-D
 
  By: Cook S.B. No. 2737
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the requirement that the board of directors of certain
  tax increment reinvestment zones have conducted by the office of
  the city controller of the municipality that created the zone an
  annual financial audit.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 311.010, Tax Code, is amended by adding
  Subsection (k) to read as follows:
         (k)  The board of directors of a reinvestment zone to which
  this subsection applies shall enter into an agreement with the
  office of the city controller of the municipality that created the
  reinvestment zone to have conducted by the office a financial audit
  of the reinvestment zone at least once each fiscal year of the
  reinvestment zone.  This subsection applies only to a reinvestment
  zone created by a municipality with a population of at least two
  million.
         SECTION 2.  Section 311.010(k), Tax Code, as added by this
  Act, applies only to a fiscal year of a tax increment reinvestment
  zone that begins on or after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.