Bill Text: TX HB3258 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to a report by the Legislative Budget Board on the reliance by this state on certain dedicated revenue for purposes of budget certification.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Referred to Finance [HB3258 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3258-Engrossed.html
88R13500 KBB-D | ||
By: Howard, Darby | H.B. No. 3258 |
|
||
|
||
relating to a report by the Legislative Budget Board on the reliance | ||
by this state on certain dedicated revenue for purposes of budget | ||
certification. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 322.024(a), (b), and (c), Government | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) In this section, "available dedicated revenue" means | ||
revenue that Section 403.095, including any reenactment of Section | ||
403.095, makes available for certification under Section 403.121. | ||
(b) The board shall: | ||
(1) develop and implement a process to review: | ||
(A) new legislative enactments that create | ||
dedicated revenue; and | ||
(B) the appropriation and accumulation of | ||
dedicated revenue and available dedicated revenue; | ||
(2) develop and implement tools to evaluate the use of | ||
available dedicated revenue for state government financing and | ||
budgeting; and | ||
(3) develop specific and detailed recommendations on | ||
actions the legislature may reasonably take to reduce state | ||
government's reliance on available dedicated revenue for the | ||
purposes of certification under Section 403.121 as authorized by | ||
Section 403.095 or by any reenactment of Section 403.095. | ||
(c) The board shall: | ||
(1) incorporate into the board's budget | ||
recommendations for each state fiscal biennium appropriate | ||
measures to reduce state government's reliance on available | ||
dedicated revenue for the purposes of certification under Section | ||
403.121 as authorized by Section 403.095 or by any reenactment of | ||
Section 403.095; and | ||
(2) [ |
||
for each state fiscal biennium a plan adopted by the board [ |
||
for further reducing state government's reliance on available | ||
dedicated revenue for those purposes for the three state fiscal | ||
bienniums that follow the adoption of those budget recommendations | ||
[ |
||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |