Bill Text: TX SB668 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the adoption of a training manual for certain state officers.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-23 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB668 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB668-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Schwertner, et al. | S.B. No. 668 | |
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| relating to the adoption of a training manual for certain state | ||
| officers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 6, Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Chapter 673 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 673. TRAINING MANUAL FOR CERTAIN STATE OFFICERS | ||
| Sec. 673.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Executive head of a state agency" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 669.001. | ||
| (2) "State agency" means a department, board, | ||
| commission, or other agency in the executive branch of state | ||
| government. The term does not include an institution of higher | ||
| education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code. | ||
| Sec. 673.002. TRAINING MANUAL. (a) The governing body of | ||
| a state agency or the single state officer who governs an agency | ||
| shall adopt a training manual as provided by this section. The | ||
| executive head of a state agency governed by a governing body shall | ||
| ensure that each member of the body receives a copy of the manual | ||
| each year. | ||
| (b) The training manual must include, at a minimum: | ||
| (1) the scope of and limitations on the rulemaking | ||
| authority of the governing body or officer; | ||
| (2) the distinction between the governing body's or | ||
| officer's rulemaking authority and the authority of the | ||
| legislature; | ||
| (3) the ethical considerations involved in | ||
| communications between the officer or members of the governing body | ||
| and persons required to register as lobbyists under Chapter 305; | ||
| (4) the procedures by which the officer or a member of | ||
| a governing body must disclose a conflict of interest; and | ||
| (5) rules and state laws applicable to the officer or | ||
| members of the governing body. | ||
| (c) A person who is a member of the governing body of a state | ||
| agency shall submit annually to the executive head of the state | ||
| agency a statement affirming receipt of the training manual. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than June 1, 2016, the governing body | ||
| of a state agency or the single state officer who governs the agency | ||
| shall adopt the training manual required by Section 673.002, | ||
| Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
