Bill Text: TX HB9 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to posting certain information regarding compensation of state agency executive staff on the Internet.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-02 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB9 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB9-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Flynn, Alvarado, Perry, Martinez Fischer, | H.B. No. 9 | |
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relating to posting certain information regarding compensation of | ||
state agency executive staff on the Internet. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 659, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 659.026 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 659.026. INFORMATION REGARDING EXECUTIVE STAFF | ||
COMPENSATION. (a) In this section: | ||
(1) "Compensation" includes an emolument provided in | ||
lieu of base salary or wages or a supplement to base salary or | ||
wages. | ||
(2) "Executive staff" means: | ||
(A) the director, executive director, | ||
commissioner, administrator, or other individual who is appointed | ||
by the governing body of a state agency or by another state officer | ||
to act as the chief executive or administrative head of the agency | ||
and who is not an appointed officer; and | ||
(B) other management or senior level staff | ||
members of a state agency. | ||
(3) "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 | ||
as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code. | ||
(b) A state agency shall make available to the public by | ||
posting on the agency's Internet website the agency's methodology, | ||
including any employment market analysis, for determining the | ||
compensation of executive staff employed by the agency at the time | ||
and in the manner provided by the state auditor. | ||
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. |