1-1 By: Truan S.B. No. 1332
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 31, 1993; April 1, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Finance; May 3, 1993,
1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0;
1-5 May 3, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Montford x
1-9 Turner x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Ellis x
1-14 Haley x
1-15 Moncrief x
1-16 Parker x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Sims x
1-19 Truan x
1-20 Zaffirini x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to analyses of state budget proposals and programs and of
1-24 the budgetary effects of proposed legislation.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Chapter 316, Government Code, is amended by
1-27 adding Subchapter G to read as follows:
1-28 SUBCHAPTER G. ANALYSES OF STATE BUDGET PROPOSALS AND PROGRAMS
1-29 AND BUDGETARY EFFECTS OF PROPOSED LEGISLATION
1-30 Sec. 316.101. METHODOLOGY TO DETERMINE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF
1-31 BUDGET ITEMS OR PROGRAMS. (a) The Legislative Budget Board shall
1-32 develop a methodology to identify and quantify how spending in one
1-33 area of or on one program in the state budget affects spending in
1-34 other budget areas and on other programs.
1-35 (b) In developing the methodology, the board shall give
1-36 priority to interrelationships between budget items or programs
1-37 that are caused by increased or decreased need for state spending
1-38 by the population served by a budget item or program resulting from
1-39 an increase or decrease in spending in a related program, as well
1-40 as to budget interrelationships that result from requirements or
1-41 prohibitions provided by law. The methodology shall incorporate
1-42 demographic projections as well as state revenue projections.
1-43 (c) The board shall apply the methodology developed under
1-44 this section to its analysis of agency budget proposals in
1-45 preparing the proposed state budget.
1-46 (d) The board also shall apply the methodology to its
1-47 preparation of fiscal notes for proposed legislation.
1-48 Sec. 316.102. COOPERATION BY OTHER AGENCIES. The state
1-49 auditor, the budget division of the governor's office, the
1-50 comptroller, the Sunset Advisory Commission, and the staff of the
1-51 data depository of the Texas Department of Commerce, on the request
1-52 of the Legislative Budget Board, shall assist the board in
1-53 performing its functions under this subchapter.
1-54 SECTION 2. (a) The Legislative Budget Board, the state
1-55 auditor, and the budget division of the governor's office shall
1-56 undertake a comprehensive review of each existing state program
1-57 that was not subject to analysis in the manner provided by
1-58 Subchapter G, Chapter 316, Government Code, as added by this Act,
1-59 at the time the program was established. The purpose of the review
1-60 is to determine the long-term social and financial benefits of each
1-61 program. The review shall incorporate any methodology developed
1-62 under Subchapter G, Chapter 316, Government Code, as added by this
1-63 Act.
1-64 (b) The agencies shall make a report to the legislature each
1-65 biennium on their review under this section during the preceding
1-66 two years until each program has been subject either to review
1-67 under this section or review at the time of establishment under the
1-68 methodology developed under Subchapter G, Chapter 316, Government
2-1 Code, as added by this Act.
2-2 (c) State agencies shall assist in performing the review
2-3 under this section on the request of the Legislative Budget Board,
2-4 the state auditor, or the budget division of the governor's office.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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2-11 Austin,
2-12 Texas
2-13 May 3, 1993
2-14 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-15 President of the Senate
2-16 Sir:
2-17 We, your Committee on Finance to which was referred S.B. No. 1332,
2-18 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-19 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-20 pass and be printed.
2-21 Montford,
2-22 Chairman
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2-24 WITNESSES
2-25 FOR AGAINST ON
2-26 ___________________________________________________________________
2-27 Name: Tom Smith x
2-28 Representing: Public Citizen
2-29 City: Austin
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2-31 Name: Wilson S. Campbell x
2-32 Representing: State Auditor's Office
2-33 City: Austin
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2-35 Name: Bartholomen Sparrow x
2-36 Representing: Self
2-37 City: Austin
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2-39 Name: Dan Y. Dabney x
2-40 Representing: Self
2-41 City: Austin
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