Bill Text: TX SB668 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the adoption of a training manual for certain state officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
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 | |
(Geren) | ||
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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. |