Bill Text: TX HB3119 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to strategic fiscal reviews of state agencies and programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-08 - Left pending in committee [HB3119 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3119-Introduced.html
86R13495 SLB-D | ||
By: Schaefer | H.B. No. 3119 |
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relating to strategic fiscal reviews of state agencies and | ||
programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. (a) In this section, "board" means the | ||
Legislative Budget Board. | ||
(b) The board shall perform a strategic fiscal review for | ||
each state agency continued in existence by an Act of the 85th | ||
Legislature, Regular Session, 2017. | ||
(c) Not later than September 1, 2020, the board shall | ||
prepare and submit a report of the findings of the strategic fiscal | ||
review conducted under Subsection (b) of this section to the | ||
governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of | ||
representatives and to the members of the senate finance and house | ||
appropriations committees. | ||
(d) The strategic fiscal review report under Subsection (c) | ||
of this section must contain: | ||
(1) a description of the discrete activities the state | ||
agency is charged with conducting or performing together with: | ||
(A) a justification for each activity by | ||
reference to a statute or other legal authority; and | ||
(B) an evaluation of the effectiveness and | ||
efficiency of the state agency's policies, management, fiscal | ||
affairs, and operations in relation to each activity; | ||
(2) for each activity identified under Subdivision (1) | ||
of this subsection: | ||
(A) a quantitative estimate of any adverse | ||
effects that reasonably may be expected to result if the activity | ||
were discontinued, together with a description of the methods by | ||
which the adverse effects were estimated; | ||
(B) an itemized account of expenditures required | ||
to maintain the activity at the minimum level of service or | ||
performance required by the statute or other legal authority, | ||
together with a concise statement of the quantity and quality of | ||
service or performance required at that minimum level; and | ||
(C) an itemized account of expenditures required | ||
to maintain the activity at the current level of service or | ||
performance, together with a concise statement of the quantity and | ||
quality of service or performance provided at that current level; | ||
(3) a ranking of activities identified under | ||
Subdivision (1) of this subsection that illustrates the relative | ||
importance of each activity to the overall goals and purposes of the | ||
state agency at current service or performance levels; and | ||
(4) recommendations to the legislature regarding | ||
whether the legislature should continue funding each activity | ||
identified under Subdivision (1) of this subsection and, if so, at | ||
what level. | ||
(e) The legislature may consider the strategic fiscal | ||
review report conducted under this section in connection with the | ||
legislative appropriations process. | ||
(f) Until the board has completed a strategic fiscal review | ||
under this section, all information, documentary or otherwise, | ||
prepared or maintained in conducting the strategic fiscal review or | ||
preparing the strategic fiscal review report, including | ||
intra-agency and interagency communications and drafts of the | ||
strategic fiscal review report, or portions of those drafts, is | ||
excepted from required public disclosure as audit working papers | ||
under Section 552.116, Government Code. 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, Government Code. | ||
(g) This section expires August 31, 2021. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |