Bill Text: TX HB2830 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2830

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a report by the Legislative Budget Board on the reliance by this state on certain dedicated revenue for purposes of budget certification.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-19 - Referred to Appropriations [HB2830 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB2830-Introduced.html

	89R4984 CS-D

	By: Howard	H.B. No. 2830



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a report by the Legislative Budget Board on the reliance
	by this state on certain dedicated revenue for purposes of budget
	certification.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Sections 322.024(a), (b), and (c), Government
	Code, are amended to read as follows:
	(a) In this section, "available dedicated revenue" means
	revenue that Section 403.095, including any reenactment of Section
	403.095, makes available for certification under Section 403.121.
	(b) The board shall:
	(1) develop and implement a process to review:
	(A) new legislative enactments that create
	dedicated revenue; and
	(B) the appropriation and accumulation of
	dedicated revenue and available dedicated revenue;
	(2) develop and implement tools to evaluate the use of
	available dedicated revenue for state government financing and
	budgeting; and
	(3) develop specific and detailed recommendations on
	actions the legislature may reasonably take to reduce state
	government's reliance on available dedicated revenue for the
	purposes of certification under Section 403.121 as authorized by
	Section 403.095 or by any reenactment of Section 403.095.
	(c) The board shall:
	(1) incorporate into the board's budget
	recommendations for each state fiscal biennium appropriate
	measures to reduce state government's reliance on available
	dedicated revenue for the purposes of certification under Section
	403.121 as authorized by Section 403.095 or by any reenactment of
	Section 403.095; and
	(2) [~~shall~~] include with the budget recommendations
	for each state fiscal biennium a plan adopted by the board [~~plans~~]
	for further reducing state government's reliance on available
	dedicated revenue for those purposes for the three state fiscal
	bienniums that follow the adoption of those budget recommendations
	[~~succeeding six years~~].
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.