Bill Amendment: TX HB4510 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Relating to reporting of certain information by state agencies and counties, including information related to appropriated money, activities of certain consultants, and tax revenue.

Status: 2023-05-26 - Sent to the Governor [HB4510 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4510-Senate_Amendment_S_2_F1-Schwertner.html

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Amend HB 4510 (senate committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS of the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:

SECTION ____.  Section 2115.005, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 2115.005.  ANNUAL REPORT BY COMPTROLLER [FORWARDING REPORTS]. (a) Subject to Subsection (b), not [The comptroller shall provide copies, including electronic form copies, of any reports received from a consultant contracting under Section 2115.002 to:

[(1)     the governor;

[(2)     the state auditor's office; and

[(3)     the Legislative Budget Board.

[(b)     The comptroller shall provide the copies required by Subsection (a) not later than the 15th day after the date the comptroller receives the consultant's report.

[(c)     Not] later than February 1 of each [odd-numbered] year, the comptroller shall issue [a report] to the legislature, governor, state auditor's office, and Legislative Budget Board a report summarizing the activities conducted by a consultant pursuant to a recovery audit completed under this chapter during the preceding state fiscal [biennium ending August 31 of the previous] year.

(b)  The comptroller is required to issue a report under Subsection (a) only if a recovery audit was completed under this chapter during the preceding state fiscal year.

SECTION ____.  Section 61.040, Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 61.040.  TAX INFORMATION. (a) For the purpose of determining eligibility for state assistance under this chapter, [The comptroller shall give] the department may require a county to provide the following information for the relevant period [relating to]:

(1)  the taxable value of property taxable by the [each] county;

(2)  the [and each] county's applicable general revenue tax levy [for the relevant period]; and

(3) [(2)]  the amount of sales and use tax revenue received by the [each] county [for the relevant period].

(b)  The department shall prescribe the manner in which a county must provide the information described by Subsection (a).