Bill Text: TX SB272 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 272 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to zero-based budgeting for state agencies as part of the sunset review process.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-30 - Referred to Finance [SB272 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB272-Introduced.html

	85R538 CJC-D

	By: Perry, Bettencourt	S.B. No. 272



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to zero-based budgeting for state agencies as part of the
	sunset review process.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. The heading to Section 325.007, Government Code,
	is amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 325.007. AGENCY REPORT TO COMMISSION; ZERO-BASED
	BUDGET.
	SECTION 2. Section 325.007, Government Code, is amended by
	adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
	(c) Before November 1 of the odd-numbered year before the
	year in which a state agency subject to this chapter is abolished,
	the agency shall present to the commission a zero-based budget for
	the state fiscal biennium that begins on the date the agency is
	scheduled to be abolished that contains:
	(1) a description of the discrete activities the
	agency is charged with conducting or performing, together with a
	justification for each activity by reference to a statute or other
	legal authority;
	(2) for each activity identified under Subdivision
	(1), 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;
	(3) for each activity identified under Subdivision
	(1), an itemized account of expenditures required to maintain the
	activity at the minimum level of service required by the statute or
	other legal authority, together with a concise statement of the
	quantity and quality of service required at that minimum level;
	(4) for each activity identified under Subdivision
	(1), an itemized account of expenditures required to maintain the
	activity at the current level of service, together with a concise
	statement of the quantity and quality of service provided at that
	level; and
	(5) a ranking of activities identified under
	Subdivision (1) that illustrates the relative importance of each
	activity to the overall goals and purposes of the agency at current
	service levels.
	(d) A state agency shall submit the zero-based budget
	required under Subsection (c) to the Legislative Budget Board as
	part of the agency's legislative appropriations request for the
	state fiscal biennium that begins on the date the agency is
	scheduled to be abolished.
	SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply in
	relation to the review by the Sunset Advisory Commission of
	agencies scheduled to be abolished on or after September 1, 2021, if
	not continued in accordance with Chapter 325, Government Code, and
	in relation to any other agencies that by law are reviewed during
	those review periods by the Sunset Advisory Commission.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.