Bill Text: TX HB1781 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to obsolete or redundant reporting requirements applicable to state agencies and to certain reports, communications, publications, and other documents involving the attorney general.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1781 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1781-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to obsolete or redundant reporting requirements applicable to state agencies and to certain reports, communications, publications, and other documents involving the attorney general.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1781 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1781-Introduced.html
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By: Price | H.B. No. 1781 |
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relating to obsolete or redundant reporting requirements | ||
applicable to state agencies. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 2052, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subchapter E to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER E. OBSOLETE OR REDUNDANT REPORTING REQUIREMENTS | ||
Sec. 2052.401. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
(1) "Executive director" means the executive head of a | ||
state agency. The term includes an executive director, | ||
commissioner, or executive commissioner as appropriate for the | ||
state agency. | ||
(2) "State agency" means: | ||
(A) a board, commission, department, office, or | ||
other agency in the executive branch of state government that was | ||
created by the constitution or a statute of the state, including an | ||
institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, | ||
Education Code; | ||
(B) the legislature or a legislative agency; and | ||
(C) the supreme court, the court of criminal | ||
appeals, a court of appeals, or a state judicial agency. | ||
Sec. 2052.402. EXAMINATION OF REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. (a) | ||
Not later than August 1, 2012, the executive director of each state | ||
agency shall: | ||
(1) examine the agency's reporting requirements | ||
established by a state statute enacted before January 1, 2009, and | ||
not amended since that date, and identify each reporting | ||
requirement that the executive director determines: | ||
(A) is not necessary to accomplish the objectives | ||
of the statute that contains the reporting requirement; | ||
(B) is redundant of other statutory reporting | ||
requirements; or | ||
(C) is required under statute to be provided at a | ||
frequency for which data is not available; and | ||
(2) provide to the governor, the lieutenant governor, | ||
the speaker of the house of representatives, and each member of the | ||
senate and house of representatives an electronic report that | ||
includes: | ||
(A) each statutory reporting requirement for | ||
which the executive director made a determination described by | ||
Subdivision (1); and | ||
(B) the justification for the executive | ||
director's determination for each reporting requirement. | ||
(b) The executive director may not include in the initial | ||
report issued under Subsection (a)(2) a reporting requirement that: | ||
(1) is required by federal law; or | ||
(2) also applies to another state agency. | ||
Sec. 2052.403. EXPIRATION. This subchapter expires | ||
September 1, 2014. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |