Bill Text: TX SB704 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to interim budget reduction requests.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-23 - Referred to Finance [SB704 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB704-Introduced.html
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| By: Watson | S.B. No. 704 | |
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| relating to interim budget reduction requests. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 322, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 322.022 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 322.022. PUBLIC HEARING ON INTERIM BUDGET REDUCTION | ||
| REQUEST. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Interim budget reduction request" means a request | ||
| communicated in any manner for a state agency to make adjustments to | ||
| the strategies, methods of finance, performance measures, or riders | ||
| applicable to the agency through the state budget in effect on the | ||
| date the request is communicated that, if implemented, would reduce | ||
| the agency's total expenditures for the current state fiscal | ||
| biennium to an amount less than the total amount that otherwise | ||
| would be permissible based on the appropriations made to the agency | ||
| in the budget. | ||
| (2) "State agency" means an office, department, board, | ||
| commission, institution, or other entity to which a legislative | ||
| appropriation is made. | ||
| (b) A state agency shall provide to the board a detailed | ||
| report of any expenditure reduction plan that: | ||
| (1) the agency develops in response to an interim | ||
| budget reduction request made by the governor, the lieutenant | ||
| governor, or a member of the legislature, or any combination of | ||
| those persons; and | ||
| (2) if implemented, would reduce the agency's total | ||
| expenditures for the current state fiscal biennium to an amount | ||
| less than the total amount that otherwise would be permissible | ||
| based on the appropriations made to the agency in the state budget | ||
| for the biennium. | ||
| (c) The board shall hold a public hearing to solicit | ||
| testimony on an expenditure reduction plan a state agency reports | ||
| to the board as required by Subsection (b) as soon as practicable | ||
| after receiving the report. The agency may not implement any | ||
| element of the plan until the conclusion of the hearing. | ||
| (d) This section does not apply to an expenditure reduction | ||
| a state agency desires to make that does not directly or indirectly | ||
| result from an interim budget reduction request made by the | ||
| governor, the lieutenant governor, or a member of the legislature, | ||
| or any combination of those persons. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
