By Junell H.B. No. 2071
77R2039 YDB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to establishing a billing procedure to ensure that each
1-3 state agency is billed for the cost of support services allocated
1-4 to the agency under the statewide cost allocation plan.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 2106.002(b), Government Code, is amended
1-7 to read as follows:
1-8 (b) The plan must:
1-9 (1) identify the costs of providing statewide support
1-10 services to each state agency;
1-11 (2) allocate to each state agency an appropriate
1-12 portion of the total costs of statewide support services, including
1-13 costs identified under Subdivision (1); [and]
1-14 (3) identify, to the extent possible, the amount of
1-15 federally reimbursable indirect costs in each allocated portion;
1-16 and
1-17 (4) develop and prescribe a billing procedure that
1-18 ensures each state agency is billed for all costs allocated to the
1-19 agency under Subdivision (2) for which the agency is not obligated
1-20 to pay another state agency under other law.
1-21 SECTION 2. Section 2106.006, Government Code, is amended to
1-22 read as follows:
1-23 Sec. 2106.006. GENERAL REVENUE FUND REIMBURSEMENT. (a)
1-24 Subject to Subsection (c), a [A] state agency [that receives
2-1 federal money for federally reimbursable indirect costs] shall send
2-2 to the comptroller for deposit to the credit of the general revenue
2-3 fund [the lesser of]:
2-4 (1) the amount of federal money received by the agency
2-5 for federally reimbursable indirect costs to the extent that the
2-6 indirect costs are statewide allocated costs for which the agency
2-7 is billed under Section 2106.002(b); [or]
2-8 (2) the amount the agency has received in fees:
2-9 (A) that in accordance with Section 2106.005(2)
2-10 should be accounted for as payment [the amount allocated to the
2-11 agency in the governor's statewide cost allocation plan] for the
2-12 cost of providing statewide support services to the agency; and
2-13 (B) to the extent the agency is billed for those
2-14 amounts under Section 2106.002(b); and
2-15 (3) any remaining amounts still necessary to pay the
2-16 amount billed under Section 2106.002(b).
2-17 (b) Subject to Subsection (c), to the extent the amount
2-18 billed under Section 2106.002(b) is not totally paid under
2-19 Subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2), the comptroller shall transfer to
2-20 the general revenue fund the appropriate amount charged against
2-21 items of appropriation in connection with which the remaining
2-22 unpaid statewide allocated costs were incurred [This section does
2-23 not apply to money received by a state agency for federally
2-24 reimbursable indirect costs to the extent that the agency has
2-25 previously paid another state agency for services for which the
2-26 first agency has been reimbursed].
2-27 (c) The legislature may provide in the General
3-1 Appropriations Act that payment of the amount billed under Section
3-2 2106.002(b) is waived to the extent payment would be made from a
3-3 state agency's general revenue appropriation.
3-4 (d) A state agency shall send to the comptroller information
3-5 the comptroller requires to transfer amounts under Subsection (b).
3-6 (e) The comptroller shall adopt rules necessary to
3-7 prescribe:
3-8 (1) the timing and method of transfers under this
3-9 section; and
3-10 (2) the manner in which a state agency shall send to
3-11 the comptroller information the comptroller requires to transfer
3-12 amounts under Subsection (b).
3-13 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.