By: Bivins S.B. No. 1576
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the development of performance measures by the Texas
1-2 Agricultural Finance Authority.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 58.017, Agriculture Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 58.017. Performance Measures [Cost-Benefit Report].
1-7 The board, in conjunction with the legislative budget board,
1-8 the state auditor, and the Office of the Governor, shall develop a
1-9 minimum of two performance measures that provide information on the
1-10 benefits of the Authority's loan programs. The performance
1-11 measures shall be included in the report required under Section
1-12 58.016(d) of this code or as a component of the measures
1-13 incorporated into the appropriation act [(a) The board shall
1-14 perform a biennial cost-benefit study of the authority's active and
1-15 inactive programs and prepare a report regarding that study. The
1-16 study must include an examination of the number of jobs created or
1-17 retained in this state as a result of each program and the costs
1-18 and benefits associated with those jobs.]
1-19 [(b) The chairman of the board shall file the report
1-20 prepared under Subsection (a) with the state auditor before
1-21 December 1 of each even-numbered year.]
2-1 [(c) The state auditor shall review the report filed under
2-2 Subsection (b) and send the report and the auditor's comments
2-3 regarding the methodology used by the authority in performing the
2-4 cost-benefit study to the governor and the presiding officer of
2-5 each house of the legislature not later than February 1 of each
2-6 odd-numbered year. The state auditor shall provide assistance to
2-7 the department in preparing the report required by this section].
2-8 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.