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By Swinford H.B. No. 2729
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the development of performance measures by the Texas
1-3 Agricultural Finance Authority.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 58.017, Agriculture Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 SECTION 2. Sec. 58.017. Performance Measures [Cost-Benefit
1-8 Report]
1-9 The board, in conjunction with the legislative budget board,
1-10 the state auditor, and the Office of the Governor, shall develop a
1-11 minimum of two performance measures that provide information on the
1-12 benefits of the Authority's loan programs. The performance
1-13 measures shall be included in the report required under Section
1-14 58.016(d) of this code or as a component of the measures
1-15 incorporated into the appropriation act [(a) The board shall
1-16 perform a biennial cost-benefit study of the authority's active and
1-17 inactive programs and prepare a report regarding that study. The
1-18 study must include an examination of the number of jobs created or
1-19 retained in this state as a result of each program and the costs
1-20 and benefits associated with those jobs.]
1-21 [(b) The chairman of the board shall file the report prepared
1-22 under Subsection (a) with the state auditor before December 1 of
1-23 each even-numbered year.]
1-24 [(c) The state auditor shall review the report filed under
2-1 Subsection (b) and send the report and the auditor's comments
2-2 regarding the methodology used by the authority in performing the
2-3 cost-benefit study to the governor and the presiding officer of
2-4 each house of the legislature not later than February 1 of each
2-5 odd-numbered year. The state auditor shall provide assistance to
2-6 the department in preparing the report required by this section].
2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-10 constitutional rule requiring bill to be read on three several days
2-11 in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.