Bill Text: TX HB2362 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the efficiency review of river authorities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB2362 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2362-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2362 |
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relating to the efficiency review of river authorities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 49, Water Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 49.1991 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 49.1991. EFFICIENCY REVIEW OF RIVER AUTHORITIES. A | ||
district that is a river authority is subject to an efficiency | ||
review by the Legislative Budget Board. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 322, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 322.0171 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 322.0171. EFFICIENCY REVIEW OF RIVER AUTHORITIES. (a) | ||
The board periodically may review and analyze the effectiveness and | ||
efficiency of the policies, management, fiscal affairs, and | ||
operations of a river authority. | ||
(b) The board shall report the findings of a review and | ||
analysis to the governor and the legislature. | ||
(c) Until the board has completed a review and analysis | ||
under this section, all information, documentary or otherwise, | ||
prepared or maintained in conducting the review and analysis or | ||
preparing the review report, including intra-agency and | ||
interagency communications and drafts of the review report or | ||
portions of those drafts, is excepted from required public | ||
disclosure as audit working papers under Section 552.116. This | ||
subsection does not affect whether information described by this | ||
subsection is confidential or excepted from required public | ||
disclosure under a law other than Section 552.116. | ||
SECTION 3. The Legislative Budget Board shall conduct an | ||
efficiency review authorized by Section 322.0171, Government Code, | ||
as added by this Act, of both the Lower Colorado River Authority and | ||
the Brazos River Authority before conducting a review of other | ||
river authorities as authorized by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2362 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 2362 on May 23, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2362 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 21, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |