Bill Text: TX HB636 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to a report on certain pending suits against the state, a state agency, or a state official.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-09 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB636 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB636-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Howard | H.B. No. 636 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 636: | |||
| By: Longoria | C.S.H.B. No. 636 | ||
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| relating to a report on certain pending suits against the state, a | ||
| state agency, or a state official. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 403.0146 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 403.0146. REPORT ON FISCAL IMPACT OF PENDING SUITS | ||
| AGAINST THE STATE. (a) The comptroller shall produce a report that | ||
| identifies each suit against the state, a state agency, or a state | ||
| official: | ||
| (1) in which the amount of the monetary claim in | ||
| controversy is $10 million or more; and | ||
| (2) that is pending as of August 31 of | ||
| each even-numbered fiscal year. | ||
| (b) In preparing the report required under this section, the | ||
| comptroller shall use available information submitted to the | ||
| comptroller by state agencies for the purpose of producing the most | ||
| recent comprehensive annual financial report under Section | ||
| 403.013(c). A state agency shall provide any information on | ||
| pending suits requested by the comptroller for the purpose of | ||
| producing the report. | ||
| (c) Information relating to a suit described by Subsection | ||
| (a) provided to the comptroller by a state agency, collected by the | ||
| comptroller from a state agency, or that is used or created by the | ||
| comptroller to produce the report described by this section is | ||
| confidential and not subject to disclosure under Chapter 552. | ||
| (d) Not later than December 31 of each even-numbered year, | ||
| the comptroller shall deliver the report produced under this | ||
| section to the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house | ||
| of representatives, House Appropriations Committee, Senate Finance | ||
| Committee, and Legislative Budget Board. | ||
| 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, 2017. | ||
