Bill Text: TX SB706 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the abolishment of the State Council on Competitive Government and the transfer of its functions to the comptroller.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-18 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB706 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB706-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the abolishment of the State Council on Competitive Government and the transfer of its functions to the comptroller.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-18 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB706 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB706-Introduced.html
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By: Birdwell | S.B. No. 706 |
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relating to the abolishment of the State Council on Competitive | ||
Government and the transfer of its functions to the comptroller. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 236.002, Family Code, is amended to read | ||
as follows: | ||
Sec. 236.002. POWERS AND DUTIES [ |
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Title IV-D agency [ |
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(1) establish an initiative called "Kids Can't Wait" | ||
to increase child support enforcement; | ||
(2) identify child support enforcement functions | ||
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(3) establish guidelines for referral of child support | ||
enforcement cases to a contractor; | ||
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participation in an electronic parent locator network or a similar | ||
national service designed to locate parents who owe child support; | ||
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options in child support collection actions for children who do not | ||
receive public assistance; and | ||
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administration of this chapter. | ||
(b) The Title IV-D agency shall coordinate with the | ||
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support enforcement functions identified under this section. | ||
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SECTION 2. Section 662.0071(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) A state agency shall accept the balance of compensatory | ||
time accrued under Section 662.007 by a state employee who | ||
transfers to that agency from another state agency if the employee | ||
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duties from the agency that formerly employed the employee to the | ||
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SECTION 3. Sections 2054.131(b) and (d), Government Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) If the department [ |
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cost savings may be realized through a private vendor selected | ||
under this section, the department [ |
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electronic infrastructure through which each state agency, | ||
including any retirement system created by statute or by the | ||
constitution, shall: | ||
(1) require its work site benefits plan participants | ||
to electronically: | ||
(A) enroll in any work site benefits plans | ||
provided to the person by the state or a state agency; | ||
(B) add, change, or delete benefits; | ||
(C) sign any payroll deduction agreements to | ||
implement a contribution made to a plan in which the participant | ||
enrolls; | ||
(D) terminate participation in a voluntary plan; | ||
(E) initiate account investment changes and | ||
withdrawals in a retirement plan; | ||
(F) obtain information regarding plan benefits; | ||
and | ||
(G) communicate with the plan administrator; and | ||
(2) administer its work site benefits plans | ||
electronically by using the project to: | ||
(A) enroll new plan participants and, when | ||
appropriate, terminate plan participation; | ||
(B) generate eligibility and enrollment reports | ||
for plan participants; | ||
(C) link plan administration with payroll | ||
administration to facilitate payroll deductions for a plan; | ||
(D) facilitate single-source billing | ||
arrangements between the agency and a plan provider; and | ||
(E) transmit and receive information regarding | ||
the plan. | ||
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to implement the project. The contract must require the | ||
application of the project to all state agencies without cost to the | ||
state until the project is initially implemented. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 2171.104(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) The office of vehicle fleet management[ |
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management plan with detailed recommendations for improving the | ||
administration and operation of the state's vehicle fleet. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 32.0461, Human Resources Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsection | ||
(d) to read as follows: | ||
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competitive bids for the claims processing function of the vendor | ||
drug program. | ||
(c) The commission may award a contract under this section | ||
to another person only if the commission determines [ |
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provision of services under that contract would be more | ||
cost-effective and the time to process claims under the contract | ||
would be the same as or faster than having employees of the | ||
commission continue to process claims. | ||
(d) The commission may consult with the comptroller in | ||
administering this section. | ||
SECTION 6. Sections 11.0255(b) and (c), Parks and Wildlife | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) In calculating the costs under Subsection (a), the | ||
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(c) On request, the comptroller [ |
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SECTION 7. Section 223.042(d), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) The department shall consider all of its direct and | ||
indirect costs in determining the cost of providing the services. | ||
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SECTION 8. The following laws are repealed: | ||
(1) Section 161.037(b), Agriculture Code; | ||
(2) Section 236.001, Family Code; | ||
(3) Section 662.0071(c), Government Code; | ||
(4) Section 670.003, Government Code; | ||
(5) Chapter 2162, Government Code; | ||
(6) Section 2163.001(d), Government Code; and | ||
(7) Section 11.153(b), Parks and Wildlife Code. | ||
SECTION 9. (a) On the effective date of this Act, the State | ||
Council on Competitive Government is abolished. | ||
(b) The validity of an action taken by or in connection with | ||
the authority of the State Council on Competitive Government before | ||
the date the agency is abolished is not affected by the abolition. | ||
SECTION 10. On the effective date of this Act: | ||
(1) all powers and duties of the State Council on | ||
Competitive Government are transferred to the comptroller; | ||
(2) a rule, form, policy, procedure, or decision of | ||
the State Council on Competitive Government continues in effect as | ||
a rule, form, policy, procedure, or decision of the comptroller | ||
until superseded by an act of the comptroller; | ||
(3) a reference in law to the State Council on | ||
Competitive Government means the comptroller; | ||
(4) any action or proceeding before the State Council | ||
on Competitive Government is transferred without change in status | ||
to the comptroller and the comptroller assumes, without a change in | ||
status, the position of the State Council on Competitive Government | ||
in any action or proceeding to which the State Council on | ||
Competitive Government is a party; | ||
(5) all money, contracts, leases, rights, bonds, and | ||
obligations of the State Council on Competitive Government are | ||
transferred to the comptroller; | ||
(6) all personal property, including records, in the | ||
custody of the State Council on Competitive Government becomes the | ||
property of the comptroller; and | ||
(7) all funds appropriated by the legislature to the | ||
State Council on Competitive Government are transferred to the | ||
comptroller. | ||
SECTION 11. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |