Bill Text: TX HB1650 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the legislative appropriations request process for the Texas Department of Transportation.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-19 - Referred directly to s/c on Long-term Infrastructure Planning by chair [HB1650 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1650-Introduced.html
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| By: Turner of Collin | H.B. No. 1650 | |
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| relating to the legislative appropriations request process for the | ||
| Texas Department of Transportation. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 322.008, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) The director shall, as appropriate, organize the | ||
| proposed appropriations for the Texas Department of Transportation | ||
| in the manner and include the content required under Section | ||
| 201.119, Transportation Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 201.119, Transportation Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsections (c), (d), (e), and (f) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding Section 401.042, Government Code, the | ||
| department shall develop a zero-based legislative appropriations | ||
| request for every third state fiscal biennium that includes: | ||
| (1) a citation to: | ||
| (A) the department's authority under the Texas | ||
| Constitution to operate; and | ||
| (B) the law specifying the department's purpose | ||
| or mission; and | ||
| (2) a list of the department's requests for | ||
| legislative appropriations organized by program or activity. | ||
| (d) For each specific program or activity described by | ||
| Subsection (c)(2), the department must include: | ||
| (1) a line item that describes the program or activity | ||
| and the purpose of the program or activity and cites the law that | ||
| authorizes or requires the program or activity; | ||
| (2) a statement of the commission's goals for the | ||
| program or activity; | ||
| (3) the appropriation made for the program or activity | ||
| for the state fiscal biennium preceding the state fiscal biennium | ||
| for which the requested appropriation is made; | ||
| (4) the amount of the requested appropriation; | ||
| (5) a statement that specifies whether the requested | ||
| appropriation for the program or activity is from nondedicated | ||
| money in the general revenue fund, dedicated money in the general | ||
| revenue fund, the state highway fund, federal money, or another | ||
| source; | ||
| (6) the number of full-time equivalent employees | ||
| authorized for the program or activity for the state fiscal | ||
| biennium preceding the state fiscal biennium for which the | ||
| requested appropriation is made and the number of full-time | ||
| equivalent employees for the biennium that would be authorized | ||
| under the requested appropriation; | ||
| (7) an itemized account of expenditures required to | ||
| maintain the minimum level of service required by law to be provided | ||
| through the program or activity and a succinct statement of the | ||
| quantity and quality of services provided at that minimum level; | ||
| and | ||
| (8) an itemized account of expenditures required to | ||
| maintain the current level of service provided through the program | ||
| or activity and a succinct statement of the quantity and quality of | ||
| services provided at the current level. | ||
| (e) Line items described by Subsection (d)(1) must be | ||
| grouped together according to the level in the department's | ||
| organizational structure at which budgetary authority for the | ||
| program or activity represented by a line item is exercised by a | ||
| manager who has authority over the department's finances. | ||
| (f) For each legislative appropriations request made in the | ||
| manner required by Subsection (c), the commission shall develop and | ||
| submit to the Legislative Budget Board a ranking of the programs and | ||
| activities represented by the line items according to the relative | ||
| importance of each program and activity to the overall goals and | ||
| purposes of the department and the commission. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) Section 322.008, Government Code, as | ||
| amended by this Act, applies beginning with the general | ||
| appropriations bill prepared for the 2018-2019 state fiscal | ||
| biennium. | ||
| (b) The Texas Department of Transportation shall develop | ||
| and submit a zero-based legislative appropriations request as | ||
| required by Section 201.119, Transportation Code, as amended by | ||
| this Act, beginning with the department's legislative | ||
| appropriations request for the 2018-2019 state fiscal biennium. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
