Bill Text: TX SB698 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 698 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the analysis of certain legislative measures making an appropriation or affecting a state tax or fee.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-05 - Left pending in committee [SB698 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB698-Introduced.html

	82R5425 JSA-D

	By: Watson	S.B. No. 698



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the analysis of certain legislative measures making an
	appropriation or affecting a state tax or fee.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Chapter 322, Government Code, is amended by
	adding Sections 322.0085 and 322.0086 to read as follows:
	Sec. 322.0085. IMPACT ANALYSIS OF REDUCTIONS IN GENERAL
	REVENUE APPROPRIATIONS. (a) In this section, "appropriations
	bill" means any bill that includes one or more appropriations of
	state revenue. The term includes a bill that proposes a change in
	the amount of an appropriation made by another legislative measure.
	(b) As soon as practicable after an appropriations bill is
	filed in either house of the legislature, the director shall
	prepare an appropriations impact statement for the bill that
	identifies each proposed appropriation that would:
	(1) result in a total amount of general revenue
	appropriations available for any purpose for the succeeding fiscal
	biennium that is less than the total amount of general revenue
	appropriations available for the same purpose for the current
	fiscal biennium, after considering other appropriations from
	general revenue for the same purpose and after adjusting, in a
	manner determined by the director, the total amount of
	appropriations for that purpose for the current biennium to reflect
	the state's population growth and monetary inflation during the
	current biennium; or
	(2) result in a reduction in the total amount of
	general revenue appropriations available for any purpose for the
	current fiscal biennium.
	(c) For each appropriation that the director determines
	will result in a comparative reduction in the total amount of
	general revenue appropriations available for a purpose, the
	director shall:
	(1) determine and report in the statement the
	estimated amount of the reduction;
	(2) include in the statement a description of the
	services and functions for which the appropriation may be used and
	of how those services and functions may be affected by the
	reduction; and
	(3) identify in the statement any other sources of
	funding, including increases in fees or other charges, that
	lawfully could be used for that purpose and made available to
	supplement the reduced appropriation.
	(d) As soon as practicable after a bill to which this
	section applies is reported from committee, engrossed by the house
	of origin, reported to the house of origin with amendments by the
	other house, or reported to either house by a conference committee,
	the director shall revise the statement required by this section to
	reflect any changes to the bill made by the applicable committee,
	house, or conference committee.
	(e) The director, by e-mail or other method the director
	determines appropriate, shall make each impact statement required
	by this section available to each member of the legislature as soon
	as practicable after the statement is prepared.
	Sec. 322.0086. IMPACT ANALYSIS OF STATE TAX AND FEE BILLS.
	(a) In this section:
	(1) "Tax bill" means a bill that proposes to:
	(A) impose a new state tax; or
	(B) change the rate of a state tax.
	(2) "Fee bill" means a bill that proposes to:
	(A) impose a new state fee; or
	(B) change the amount of a state fee.
	(3) "State fee" means a fee all or part of the revenue
	from which is deposited to the credit of the state treasury.
	(4) "State tax" means a tax all or part of the revenue
	from which is deposited to the credit of the state treasury.
	(b) As soon as practicable after a tax bill or fee bill is
	filed in either house of the legislature, the director shall
	prepare an impact statement for the bill that:
	(1) states the amount of each increase or reduction in
	state revenue estimated to result from the changes in law made by
	the bill;
	(2) describes the services and functions for which any
	increase in state revenue identified under Subdivision (1) may be
	used and describes the projected effect of the increased revenue on
	those services and functions; and
	(3) for any reduction in state revenue identified
	under Subdivision (1), describes the services and functions for
	which the affected state revenue is used and describes the
	projected effect of the reduction on those services and functions.
	(c) As soon as practicable after a bill to which this
	section applies is reported from committee, engrossed by the house
	of origin, reported to the house of origin with amendments by the
	other house, or reported to either house by a conference committee,
	the director shall revise the statement required by this section to
	reflect any changes to the bill made by the applicable committee,
	house, or conference committee.
	(d) The director, by e-mail or other method the director
	determines appropriate, shall make each impact statement required
	by this section available to each member of the legislature as soon
	as practicable after the statement is prepared.
	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, 2011.