By Cuellar H.B. No. 1912
76R7960 DRH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to unfunded state mandates on political subdivisions.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 320.001(2), Government Code, is amended
1-5 to read as follows:
1-6 (2) "Mandate" ["State mandate"] means a requirement
1-7 made by a statute enacted by the legislature on or after January 1,
1-8 1997, that requires a political subdivision to establish, expand,
1-9 or modify an activity in a way that requires the expenditure of
1-10 revenue by the political subdivision that would not have been
1-11 required in the absence of the statutory provision.
1-12 SECTION 2. Section 320.003(a), Government Code, is amended
1-13 to read as follows:
1-14 (a) On or before the September 1 following a regular session
1-15 of the legislature and on or before the 90th day after the last day
1-16 of a special session of the legislature, the interagency work group
1-17 shall publish a list of mandates for which the legislature has not
1-18 provided reimbursement under Subsection (b) and that were enacted
1-19 by the legislature during that legislative session. By that same
1-20 date the interagency work group shall:
1-21 (1) remove from the list of mandates for a previous
1-22 legislative session those mandates for which the legislature has
1-23 provided reimbursement under Subsection (b), those that are no
1-24 longer subject to reimbursement, and those that are no longer in
2-1 effect; and
2-2 (2) add to the list a mandate from a previous
2-3 legislative session for which reimbursement was provided under
2-4 Subsection (b) in the previous session but for which reimbursement
2-5 was not provided in the most recent regular session or in any
2-6 subsequent special sessions.
2-7 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-8 SECTION 4. 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.