Sec. 1431.004.  USES OF ANTICIPATION NOTE PROCEEDS.  (a)  An issuer, other than an eligible school district, may use the proceeds of an anticipation note to pay:
(1)  a contractual obligation incurred or to be incurred for:
(A)  the construction of a public work;
(B)  the purchase of materials, supplies, equipment, machinery, buildings, lands, and rights-of-way for the issuer's authorized needs and purposes;  or
(C)  a professional service, including a service by a tax appraisal engineer, engineer, architect, attorney, mapmaker, auditor, financial advisor, or fiscal agent;
(2)  operating or current expenses;  or
(3)  the issuer's cumulative cash flow deficit.
(b)  The governing body of an eligible school district may use the proceeds of an anticipation note to pay an obligation incurred or to be incurred for:
(1)  a purpose described by Subsection(a)(1)(C), (2), or (3);  or
(2)  the purchase of materials, supplies, equipment, or machinery for an issuer's authorized needs and purposes.
(c)  For the purposes of this section, the cumulative cash flow deficit is the amount by which the sum of an issuer's anticipated expenditures and cash reserve reasonably required to pay unanticipated expenditures exceeds the amount of the issuer's cash, marketable securities, and money in an account that may be used to pay an issuer's anticipated expenditures, other than:
(1)  money in an account the use of which is subject to legislative or judicial action or that is subject to a legislative, judicial, or contractual requirement that the account be reimbursed;  or
(2)  the proceeds of an anticipation note.
(d)  For the purposes of Subsection (c), an amount equal to one month's anticipated expenditures is presumed to be reasonably required as a cash reserve.
(e)  An issuer, other than an eligible school district, may use the proceeds of an anticipation note or other obligation issued under Section 1431.015:
(1)  for purposes described by Subsection (a); or
(2)  to pay for:
(A)  employee salaries;
(B)  the lease of materials, supplies, equipment, machinery, buildings, lands, and rights-of-way for the issuer's authorized needs and purposes;
(C)  the demolition of dangerous structures or the restoration of historic structures;
(D)  economic development grants made under Chapter 380, Local Government Code; or
(E)  the accomplishment of any other purpose the issuer considers necessary in relation to preserving or protecting the public health and safety.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 227, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.  Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1183, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Amended by: 
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 929 (H.B. 3270), Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2007.