By:  Truan                                            S.B. No. 1332
       73R7672 GCH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to analyses of state budget proposals and programs and of
    1-3  the budgetary effects of proposed legislation.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 316, Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subchapter G to read as follows:
    1-7    SUBCHAPTER G.  ANALYSES OF STATE BUDGET PROPOSALS AND PROGRAMS
    1-8             AND BUDGETARY EFFECTS OF PROPOSED LEGISLATION
    1-9        Sec. 316.101.  METHODOLOGY TO DETERMINE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF
   1-10  BUDGET ITEMS OR PROGRAMS.  (a)  The Legislative Budget Board shall
   1-11  develop a methodology to identify and quantify how spending in one
   1-12  area of or on one program in the state budget affects spending in
   1-13  other budget areas and on other programs.
   1-14        (b)  In developing the methodology, the board shall give
   1-15  priority to interrelationships between budget items or programs
   1-16  that are caused by increased or decreased need for state spending
   1-17  by the population served by a budget item or program resulting from
   1-18  an increase or decrease in spending in a related program, as well
   1-19  as to budget interrelationships that result from requirements or
   1-20  prohibitions provided by law.  The methodology shall incorporate
   1-21  demographic projections as well as state revenue projections.
   1-22        (c)  The board shall apply the methodology developed under
   1-23  this section to its analysis of agency budget proposals in
   1-24  preparing the proposed state budget.
    2-1        (d)  The board also shall apply the methodology to its
    2-2  preparation of fiscal notes for proposed legislation.
    2-3        Sec. 316.102.  COOPERATION BY OTHER AGENCIES.  The state
    2-4  auditor, the budget division of the governor's office, the
    2-5  comptroller, the Sunset Advisory Commission, and the staff of the
    2-6  data depository of the Texas Department of Commerce, on the request
    2-7  of the Legislative Budget Board, shall assist the board in
    2-8  performing its functions under this subchapter.
    2-9        SECTION 2.  (a)  The Legislative Budget Board, the state
   2-10  auditor, and the budget division of the governor's office shall
   2-11  undertake a comprehensive review of each existing state program
   2-12  that was not subject to analysis in the manner provided by
   2-13  Subchapter G, Chapter 316, Government Code, as added by this Act,
   2-14  at the time the program was established.  The purpose of the review
   2-15  is to determine the long-term social and financial benefits of each
   2-16  program.  The review shall incorporate any methodology developed
   2-17  under Subchapter G, Chapter 316, Government Code, as added by this
   2-18  Act.
   2-19        (b)  The agencies shall make a report to the legislature each
   2-20  biennium on their review under this section during the preceding
   2-21  two years until each program has been subject either to review
   2-22  under this section or review at the time of establishment under the
   2-23  methodology developed under Subchapter G, Chapter 316, Government
   2-24  Code, as added by this Act.
   2-25        (c)  State agencies shall assist in performing the review
   2-26  under this section on the request of the Legislative Budget Board,
   2-27  the state auditor, or the budget division of the governor's office.
    3-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.