Bill Text: TX SB68 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to strategic fiscal reviews of state agencies and programs.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-07 - Effective immediately [SB68 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB68-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 68 | ||
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| relating to strategic fiscal reviews of state agencies and | ||
| programs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 322, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 322.0175 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 322.0175. STRATEGIC FISCAL REVIEW OF STATE AGENCIES | ||
| AND PROGRAMS. (a) The board shall perform a strategic fiscal | ||
| review for each state agency currently the subject of Sunset | ||
| Advisory Commission review under Chapter 325 (Texas Sunset Act). | ||
| The board shall not perform a review under this section of state | ||
| agencies listed in Section 325.025(b), Government Code, because | ||
| these agencies are not subject to the legislative appropriations | ||
| process. | ||
| (b) The board shall prepare and submit a report of the | ||
| findings of the strategic fiscal review by September 1 of the | ||
| even-numbered year of the biennium during which the review is | ||
| conducted to the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the | ||
| house of representatives and to the members of the senate finance | ||
| and house appropriations committees. | ||
| (c) The strategic fiscal review report must contain: | ||
| (1) a description of the discrete activities the state | ||
| agency is charged with conducting or performing together with: | ||
| (A) a justification for each activity by | ||
| reference to a statute or other legal authority; and | ||
| (B) an evaluation of the effectiveness and | ||
| efficiency of the state agency's policies, management, fiscal | ||
| affairs, and operations in relation to each activity; | ||
| (2) for each activity identified under Subdivision | ||
| (1): | ||
| (A) a quantitative estimate of any adverse | ||
| effects that reasonably may be expected to result if the activity | ||
| were discontinued, together with a description of the methods by | ||
| which the adverse effects were estimated; | ||
| (B) an itemized account of expenditures required | ||
| to maintain the activity at the minimum level of service or | ||
| performance required by the statute or other legal authority, | ||
| together with a concise statement of the quantity and quality of | ||
| service or performance required at that minimum level; and | ||
| (C) an itemized account of expenditures required | ||
| to maintain the activity at the current level of service or | ||
| performance, together with a concise statement of the quantity and | ||
| quality of service or performance provided at that current level; | ||
| (3) a ranking of activities identified under | ||
| Subdivision (1) that illustrates the relative importance of each | ||
| activity to the overall goals and purposes of the state agency at | ||
| current service or performance levels; and | ||
| (4) recommendations to the legislature regarding | ||
| whether the legislature should continue funding each activity | ||
| identified under Subdivision (1) and, if so, at what level. | ||
| (d) The legislature may consider the strategic fiscal | ||
| review reports in connection with the legislative appropriations | ||
| process. | ||
| (e) Until the board has completed a strategic fiscal review | ||
| under this section, all information, documentary or otherwise, | ||
| prepared or maintained in conducting the strategic fiscal review or | ||
| preparing the strategic fiscal review report, including | ||
| intra-agency and interagency communications and drafts of the | ||
| strategic fiscal review report, or portions of those drafts, is | ||
| excepted from required public disclosure as audit working papers | ||
| under Section 552.116. This subsection does not affect whether | ||
| information described by this subsection is confidential or | ||
| excepted from required public disclosure under a law other than | ||
| Section 552.116. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 68 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 11, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 23, 2019, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 68 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 17, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 141, | ||
| Nays 0, two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
