Tex. Local Government Code § 120.003: DISASTER EXCEPTION.

Section 120.002 does not apply to a county budget adopted for a fiscal year in which, or the two fiscal years following the fiscal year in which, a significant budget reduction from the preceding fiscal year was caused by a disaster, including a tornado, hurricane, flood, wildfire, or other calamity, but not including a drought, epidemic, or pandemic, in an area of the county that was the subject of a disaster declaration by the governor under Chapter 418, Government Code, or by the president of the United States.

Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 201 (S.B. 23), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2022.