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Senate Bill 713 |
Senate Author: Buckingham |
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Effective: 6-16-21 |
House Sponsor: Cyrier |
Senate Bill 713 amends the Government Code, Health and Safety Code, Insurance Code, Labor Code, Occupations Code, Utilities Code, and certain session law to make various changes to the sunset review process, including continuing certain state agencies and changing certain other sunset review dates. The bill repeals Education Code and Government Code provisions to eliminate the sunset review of the Texas A&M Forest Service, the limited-scope sunset review of the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), and the special-purpose sunset review of the HHSC office of inspector general.
Senate Bill 713 authorizes the Sunset Advisory Commission to exempt a state agency from certain sunset review requirements if the sunset commission determines that the agency is unable to participate in the review due to a declared disaster. The bill provides that all legal interests of an agency abolished in an odd-numbered year are transferred to the comptroller of public accounts on the agency's termination date, except as otherwise provided by the Texas Sunset Act, and authorizes the governor to designate another agency to administer any operative law previously administered by an abolished agency.