Bill Text: TX HB2463 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring state agencies to develop written succession plans.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2017-06-15 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB2463 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2463-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2463 | ||
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| relating to requiring state agencies to develop written succession | ||
| plans. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 321, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 321.024 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 321.024. STATE AGENCY'S SUCCESSION PLAN. (a) In this | ||
| section, "state agency" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 651.011. | ||
| (b) The State Auditor shall include in the State Auditor's | ||
| annual report on classified employee turnover: | ||
| (1) a list of each state agency that has submitted a | ||
| written succession plan under Section 651.011 to the State Auditor | ||
| and each state agency that has failed to submit a written succession | ||
| plan under that section; and | ||
| (2) a thorough and comprehensive summary of the types | ||
| and extent of succession planning completed by state agencies. | ||
| SECTION 2. Chapter 651, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 651.011 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 651.011. SUCCESSION PLAN. (a) In this section, "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. | ||
| (b) A state agency shall develop a written succession plan: | ||
| (1) identifying and developing mechanisms to ensure | ||
| the transfer of institutional knowledge from experienced and | ||
| retiring employees who are not appointed by the governor or the | ||
| governing body of the state agency to succeeding employees; and | ||
| (2) identifying the skills and abilities necessary for | ||
| the development of the succeeding employees. | ||
| (c) At least annually, the state agency shall update the | ||
| written succession plan developed under Subsection (b). The updated | ||
| written succession plan must include a report on the implementation | ||
| of the mechanisms, skills, and abilities identified and developed | ||
| in the previous written succession plan. | ||
| (d) A state agency shall include in the state agency's | ||
| legislative appropriations request a provision stating whether the | ||
| state agency has developed a written succession plan as required by | ||
| Subsection (b). | ||
| (e) Not later than September 1 of each year, a state agency | ||
| shall submit the written succession plan required under Subsection | ||
| (b) to the state auditor and post the written succession plan on the | ||
| state agency's Internet website. | ||
| SECTION 3. Not later than September 1, 2018, a state agency | ||
| under Section 651.011, Government Code, as added by this Act, shall | ||
| submit the agency's initial succession plan as required by that | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2463 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
| 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2463 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
