Bill Text: TX HB1550 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the continuation and functions of the Office of State-Federal Relations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-27 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1550 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1550-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the continuation and functions of the Office of State-Federal Relations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-27 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1550 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1550-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Goldman | H.B. No. 1550 |
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relating to the continuation and functions of the Office of | ||
State-Federal Relations. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 751.003, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 751.003. SUNSET PROVISION. The Office of | ||
State-Federal Relations is subject to Chapter 325 (Texas Sunset | ||
Act). Unless continued in existence as provided by that chapter, | ||
the office is abolished [ |
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SECTION 2. Section 751.005, Government Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (f) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) The office shall: | ||
(1) help coordinate state and federal programs dealing | ||
with the same subject; | ||
(2) inform the governor and the legislature of federal | ||
programs that may be carried out in the state or that affect state | ||
programs; | ||
(3) provide federal agencies and the United States | ||
Congress with information about state policy and state conditions | ||
on matters that concern the federal government; | ||
(4) provide the legislature with information useful in | ||
measuring the effect of federal actions on the state and local | ||
programs; | ||
(5) prepare and supply to the governor and all members | ||
of the legislature an annual report that: | ||
(A) describes the office's operations; | ||
(B) contains the office's priorities and | ||
strategies for the following year; | ||
(C) details projects and legislation pursued by | ||
the office; and | ||
(D) discusses issues in the following | ||
congressional session of interest to this state; [ |
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(6) notify the governor, the lieutenant governor, the | ||
speaker of the house of representatives, and the legislative | ||
standing committees in each house with primary jurisdiction over | ||
intergovernmental affairs of federal activities relevant to the | ||
state and inform the Texas congressional delegation of state | ||
activities; | ||
(7) conduct frequent conference calls with the | ||
lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house of representatives | ||
or their designees regarding state-federal relations and programs; | ||
(8) respond to requests for information from the | ||
legislature, the United States Congress, and federal agencies; | ||
(9) coordinate with the Legislative Budget Board | ||
regarding the effects of federal funding on the state budget; and | ||
(10) report to, and on request send appropriate | ||
representatives to appear before, the legislative standing | ||
committees in each house with primary jurisdiction over | ||
intergovernmental affairs. | ||
(f) The office shall post the report required under | ||
Subsection (b)(5) to the office's publicly accessible Internet | ||
website. | ||
SECTION 3. The following provisions of the Government Code | ||
are repealed: | ||
(1) the heading to Subchapter A, Chapter 751; and | ||
(2) Subchapter B, Chapter 751. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |