Bill Text: TX HB24 | 2013 | 83rd Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the legislative appropriations request process for the Texas Department of Transportation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-08-05 - Filed [HB24 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB24-Introduced.html
83S30027 JXC-D | ||
By: Turner of Collin | H.B. No. 24 |
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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 by 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 other 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) a line item specifying the average compensation | ||
paid to employees administering the program or activity and a | ||
succinct notation justifying the staffing levels that would be | ||
authorized under the requested appropriation as specified in | ||
Subdivision (6); | ||
(8) an estimate of the cost of any adverse effects that | ||
reasonably may be anticipated to result if the program or activity | ||
were discontinued and a description of the methods by which the cost | ||
was estimated; | ||
(9) 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 | ||
(10) 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 2016-2017 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 2016-2017 state fiscal biennium. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
last day of the legislative session. |