Bill Text: TX HB3660 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to requiring the Texas Commission on Fire Protection to conduct a study and prepare a report on administrative attachment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-26 - Senate appoints conferees-reported [HB3660 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3660-Engrossed.html
By: Simmons | H.B. No. 3660 |
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relating to requiring the Texas Commission on Fire Protection to | ||
conduct a study and prepare a report on administrative attachment. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 419, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 419.013 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 419.013. STUDY ON ADMINISTRATIVE ATTACHMENT; REPORT. | ||
(a) In this section, "state agency" means a board, commission, | ||
department, institute, office, or other agency in the executive | ||
branch of state government that is created by the constitution or a | ||
statute of this state, including an institution of higher education | ||
or other agency of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, | ||
Education Code. | ||
(b) The commission shall conduct a study on the | ||
administrative attachment of the commission to another state agency | ||
in order to: | ||
(1) reduce the costs associated with the commission; | ||
(2) improve the provision of commission services; and | ||
(3) lower the fees set and collected by the commission | ||
under this chapter. | ||
(c) The commission may request the assistance of any state | ||
agency if the commission needs assistance to conduct the study | ||
required under this section. The agency shall provide the | ||
requested assistance. | ||
(d) Not later than September 1, 2014, the commission shall | ||
report the results of the study to the legislature, the governor, | ||
and the Legislative Budget Board. The report submitted must | ||
include a complete explanation of the process used by the | ||
commission in conducting the study required under this section and: | ||
(1) if the commission finds that administrative | ||
attachment to another state agency would further the goals listed | ||
in Subsection (b): | ||
(A) identify a single state agency to which the | ||
commission shall be administratively attached, selected using the | ||
criteria prescribed by Subsection (b); and | ||
(B) include drafts of proposed legislation | ||
necessary to accomplish the administrative attachment; or | ||
(2) if the commission finds that administrative | ||
attachment to another state agency would not further the goals | ||
listed in Subsection (b): | ||
(A) identify, for each goal listed in Subsection | ||
(b), at least five reasons why administrative attachment would not | ||
further that goal; | ||
(B) describe in detail the commission's plan for | ||
meeting each goal listed in Subsection (b); and | ||
(C) include drafts of proposed legislation | ||
necessary to accomplish the commission's plan under Paragraph (B). | ||
(e) This section expires September 1, 2017. | ||
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, 2013. |