HBA-NRS S.B. 519 77(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisS.B. 519
By: Shapleigh
Appropriations
4/8/2001
Engrossed



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Current law provides that certain state programs require communities to
contribute local matching funds to receive a grant or other form of
financial assistance from a state agency. State agencies may waive or
adjust any matching funds requirement for an economically disadvantaged
county or economically disadvantaged census tract for such programs.
However, no official reports are compiled on the frequency with which an
agency grants adjustments or waivers, on the amount of each adjustment, or
on the effectiveness of a waiver or adjustment on the agency's programs.
Senate Bill 519 requires each agency that adjusts a matching funds
requirement to prepare and submit an annual report describing each
adjustment made by the agency during the preceding state fiscal year and
the effects of each adjustment on the agency's programs. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution.  

ANALYSIS

Senate Bill 519 amends the Government Code to require each state agency
that adjusts a matching funds requirement to prepare and submit an annual
report describing each adjustment made by the agency during the preceding
state fiscal year and the effects of each adjustment on the agency's
programs.  Senate Bill 519 requires a state agency to state the amount of
each adjustment, the program under which the adjustment was made, and the
name of each county or the location of each census tract that benefitted
from the adjustment. The bill also requires a state agency to send a copy
of the annual report to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker
of the house of representatives, the Legislative Budget Board, and to each
member of the legislature who requests a copy.  A state agency is
authorized to include the annual report in its annual financial report. 

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2001.