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Senate Bill 652 |
Senate Author: Hegar |
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Effective: 6-17-11 |
House Sponsor: Bonnen |
Senate Bill 652 amends statutes relating to the sunset review process for certain governmental and quasi-governmental entities.
The Sunset Advisory Commission is required to perform a limited-purpose review of the Windham School District as part of its review of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for the 83rd Legislature, to evaluate the tax division of the State Office of Administrative Hearings and present a report on that evaluation to the 84th Legislature, and, in preparation for the 83rd Legislature, to perform a limited review of a state agency that it previously reviewed in preparation for the 82nd Legislature and whose abolition date was changed to 2013. Senate Bill 652 subjects regional education service centers to sunset review and subjects the following entities to sunset review but not abolishment: an independent organization certified by the Public Utility Commission of Texas to perform certain market structure functions; the Port of Houston Authority of Harris County, Texas; and the process server review board. The board of directors of the official citrus producers' pest and disease management corporation is removed from specific sunset review.
Senate Bill 652 changes the following sunset dates for the following entities:
· from 2011 to 2013: Railroad Commission of Texas and Public Utility Commission of Texas
· from 2015 to 2013: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Ethics Commission, Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, Texas Board of Professional Engineers, and Texas Board of Architectural Examiners
· from 2013 to 2015: Finance Commission of Texas, office of banking commissioner, office of savings and mortgage lending commissioner and Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending, Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner, Health and Human Services Commission, Texas Health Services Authority, Department of State Health Services, Department of Family and Protective Services, Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities, Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services, Texas Council on Purchasing from People with Disabilities, Department of Aging and Disability Services, Texas Workforce Commission, and State Securities Board
· from 2013 to 2017: licensed court interpreter advisory board, Executive Council of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Examiners, Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners, Texas Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners, and Texas Board of Orthotics and Prosthetics
· from 2015 to 2017: Court Reporters Certification Board, State Bar of Texas, Board of Law Examiners, and State Board of Dental Examiners
· from 2013 to 2019: Texas Veterans Commission
· from 2015 to 2019: Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas, adjutant general's department, Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation and Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, Texas Funeral Service Commission, Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists, Texas Board of Professional Land Surveying, Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners, and Texas Department of Motor Vehicles
· from 2017 to 2019: School Land Board
· from 2015 to 2021: Texas Economic Development and Tourism Office and Office of State-Federal Relations
· from 2017 to 2021: Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation
· from 2019 to 2021: Texas Animal Health Commission and Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board
· from 2011 to 2023: Office of Public Utility Counsel
· from 2013 to the sunset date for the State Soil and Water Conservation Board: Texas Invasive Species Coordinating Committee