Bill Text: TX HB689 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to comparisons of state budgets made by the Legislative Budget Board.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-21 - Referred to Appropriations [HB689 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB689-Introduced.html

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86R4951 SRA-D
By: Frank H.B. No. 689

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to comparisons of state budgets made by the Legislative
Budget Board.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 322, Government Code, is amended by
adding Section 322.0082 to read as follows:
Sec. 322.0082. BUDGET COMPARISONS. (a) This section
applies only to a publicly available report or other document
prepared by the board that compares appropriations made for one
state fiscal biennium or year with the appropriations made for one
or more other state fiscal bienniums or years.
(b) The board in a report or other document to which this
section applies shall ensure that a consistent accounting
methodology is used for purposes of the report or document by
adjusting the reported amount of appropriations made by the
legislature to a state agency or institution as necessary so that
the appropriations made for each of the state fiscal bienniums or
years being compared reflect the approved accounting methodology
for the latest of the state fiscal bienniums or years being
compared.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.