Bill Text: TX SB62 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation and duties of the unfunded mandates interagency work group.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-01 - Referred to Finance [SB62 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB62-Introduced.html
86R1819 JCG-F | ||
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 62 |
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relating to the creation and duties of the unfunded mandates | ||
interagency work group. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 320.001, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 320.001. DEFINITIONS [ |
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(1) "Interagency work group" means the unfunded | ||
mandates interagency work group. | ||
(2) "Mandate" [ |
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by a statute enacted by the legislature on or after January 1, 2019 | ||
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or modify a duty or [ |
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expenditure of revenue by the political subdivision that would not | ||
have been required in the absence of the statutory provision. | ||
SECTION 2. Chapter 320, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Sections 320.002 and 320.003 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 320.002. UNFUNDED MANDATES INTERAGENCY WORK GROUP. | ||
(a) The unfunded mandates interagency work group consists of: | ||
(1) the state auditor; | ||
(2) the director of the Legislative Budget Board; | ||
(3) the comptroller; | ||
(4) a senator appointed by the lieutenant governor; | ||
and | ||
(5) a member of the house of representatives appointed | ||
by the speaker of the house of representatives. | ||
(b) A member of the interagency work group is not entitled | ||
to additional compensation for service on the work group. | ||
(c) A member of the interagency work group may use any | ||
person employed by the member's agency to complete the member's work | ||
on the work group. | ||
(d) The members of the interagency work group may enter into | ||
an interagency memorandum of understanding regarding the | ||
completion of the work required by this chapter. | ||
Sec. 320.003. ADVISORY LIST OF UNFUNDED MANDATES. (a) Not | ||
later than the September 1 following a regular session of the | ||
legislature and not later than the 90th day after the last day of a | ||
special session of the legislature, the interagency work group | ||
shall publish an advisory list of mandates for which the | ||
legislature has not provided reimbursement under Subsection (b) and | ||
that were enacted by the legislature during that legislative | ||
session. By that same date the interagency work group shall: | ||
(1) remove from the advisory list of mandates for a | ||
previous legislative session those mandates for which the | ||
legislature has provided reimbursement under Subsection (b), those | ||
that are no longer subject to reimbursement, and those that are no | ||
longer in effect; and | ||
(2) add to the advisory list a mandate from a previous | ||
legislative session for which reimbursement was provided under | ||
Subsection (b) in the previous session but for which reimbursement | ||
was not provided in the most recent regular session or in any | ||
subsequent special sessions. | ||
(b) A mandate is considered to be a mandate for which the | ||
legislature has provided reimbursement if the legislature: | ||
(1) expressly provides by statute enacted by a record | ||
vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house that the | ||
mandate is not subject to reimbursement under this section; or | ||
(2) appropriates or otherwise provides for the payment | ||
or reimbursement, from a source other than revenue of the political | ||
subdivision, of the costs incurred in the calendar year by the | ||
political subdivision in complying with the mandate. | ||
(c) This section does not apply to a mandate: | ||
(1) imposed by the legislature or a state agency to | ||
comply with a requirement of the Texas Constitution, federal law, | ||
or a court order or to maximize the receipt of federal funds by the | ||
state in areas such as education, health and human services, and | ||
criminal justice; | ||
(2) approved by the voters of this state at a general | ||
election; or | ||
(3) affecting employee pensions and benefits. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2019. |