By: Shapleigh, Zaffirini S.B. No. 501
Truan, Lucio
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to a state agency's strategic plan for serving geographic
1-2 regions of the state, including the border region.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (e), Section 2056.002,
1-5 Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The Legislative Budget Board and the Governor's Office
1-7 of Budget and Planning shall determine the elements required to be
1-8 included in each agency's strategic plan. Unless modified by the
1-9 Legislative Budget Board and the Governor's Office of Budget and
1-10 Planning, and except as provided by Subsection (c), a plan must
1-11 include:
1-12 (1) a statement of the mission and goals of the state
1-13 agency;
1-14 (2) a description of the indicators developed under
1-15 this chapter and used to measure the output and outcome of the
1-16 agency;
1-17 (3) identification of the groups of people served by
1-18 the agency, including those having service priorities, or other
1-19 service measures established by law, and estimates of changes in
1-20 those groups expected during the term of the plan;
1-21 (4) an analysis of the use of the agency's resources
1-22 to meet the agency's needs, including future needs, and an estimate
1-23 of additional resources that may be necessary to meet future needs;
1-24 (5) an analysis of expected changes in the services
2-1 provided by the agency because of changes in state or federal law;
2-2 (6) a description of the means and strategies for
2-3 meeting the agency's needs, including future needs, and achieving
2-4 the goals established under Section 2056.006 for each area of state
2-5 government for which the agency provides services;
2-6 (7) a description of the capital improvement needs of
2-7 the agency during the term of the plan and a statement, if
2-8 appropriate, of the priority of those needs; [and]
2-9 (8) identification of each geographic region of this
2-10 state, including the border region, served by the agency and, if
2-11 appropriate, the agency's means and strategies for serving each
2-12 region; and
2-13 (9) other information that may be required.
2-14 (e) In this section:
2-15 (1) "Capital[, "capital] improvement" means any
2-16 building or infrastructure project that will be owned by the state
2-17 and built with direct appropriations or with the proceeds of
2-18 state-issued bonds or paid from revenue sources other than general
2-19 revenue.
2-20 (2) "Border region" means the area consisting of the
2-21 counties of Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Brewster, Brooks, Cameron,
2-22 Crockett, Culberson, Dimmit, Duval, Edwards, El Paso, Frio,
2-23 Hidalgo, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kerr,
2-24 Kimble, Kinney, Kleberg, La Salle, Live Oak, Maverick, McMullen,
2-25 Medina, Nueces, Pecos, Presidio, Real, Reeves, San Patricio, Starr,
2-26 Sutton, Terrell, Uvalde, Val Verde, Webb, Willacy, Zapata, and
3-1 Zavala.
3-2 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
3-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.