Bill Text: TX HB2832 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring the approval of the comptroller of public accounts before a state agency may accept federal money.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-13 - Filed [HB2832 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2832-Introduced.html
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| By: Harris Davila | H.B. No. 2832 | |
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| relating to requiring the approval of the comptroller of public | ||
| accounts before a state agency may accept federal money. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle C, Title 10, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 2118 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 2118. REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO ACCEPTANCE OF FEDERAL MONEY | ||
| BY STATE AGENCIES | ||
| Sec. 2118.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "state agency" | ||
| means an agency, department, commission, bureau, board, office, | ||
| council, court, or other entity that is in any branch of state | ||
| government and that is created by the constitution or a statute of | ||
| this state. The term includes an institution of higher education as | ||
| defined by Section 61.003, Education Code. | ||
| Sec. 2118.002. REQUEST TO ACCEPT FEDERAL MONEY. (a) Except | ||
| as provided by Subsection (c), a state agency may not accept federal | ||
| money unless the agency first submits to the comptroller a request | ||
| to accept the money and the comptroller approves the request. | ||
| (b) A request by a state agency under Subsection (a) must | ||
| include: | ||
| (1) a detailed description of each condition or | ||
| limitation that will be imposed on the agency if the agency accepts | ||
| the money; and | ||
| (2) an estimate of the cost to implement the | ||
| conditions and limitations described by Subdivision (1). | ||
| (c) A state agency is not required to submit a request to the | ||
| comptroller to accept federal money if: | ||
| (1) the agency previously submitted a request to | ||
| accept federal money from the same source and for the same purposes | ||
| to the comptroller under Subsection (a); | ||
| (2) the comptroller approved the previously submitted | ||
| request; and | ||
| (3) no conditions or limitations other than those | ||
| described in the previously submitted request will be imposed on | ||
| the agency if the agency accepts the federal money, as determined by | ||
| the agency. | ||
| Sec. 2118.003. COMPTROLLER REVIEW. (a) The comptroller | ||
| shall review and approve or deny a request received under Section | ||
| 2118.002 as soon as practicable after receipt. | ||
| (b) The comptroller shall communicate to a state agency the | ||
| approval or denial of a request submitted by the agency under | ||
| Section 2118.002 before the passing of any applicable federal | ||
| deadline regarding receipt of the money of which the comptroller is | ||
| made aware in the request. | ||
| Sec. 2118.004. COPY OF REQUEST FOR CERTAIN OFFICIALS. On | ||
| receipt of a request under Section 2118.002, the comptroller shall | ||
| provide a copy of the request to the governor, the lieutenant | ||
| governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the | ||
| chairs of the standing legislative committees with primary | ||
| jurisdiction over appropriations. | ||
| Sec. 2118.005. RULES. The comptroller shall adopt rules | ||
| necessary to administer this chapter, including a rule prescribing | ||
| the form to be used by a state agency for purposes of making a | ||
| request under Section 2118.002. | ||
| SECTION 2. Chapter 2118, Government Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies only to federal money made available for receipt by a | ||
| state agency on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
