H.B. 1522 78(R) BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 1522 By: Corte Defense Affairs and State-Federal Relations Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently Texas law requires that the issue of any warrant, or the initiation of any electronic fund transfer of the Adjutant General's Department be approved by both the Adjutant General, and the Governor, or his designee, before any payments are made. The requirement that the Governor approve payments is duplicative, and unnecessary. HB 1522 would remove the requirement for the Governor to give a secondary approval of expenditures made by the Adjutant General's office. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Strikes the requirement for the Governor, or their designees to approve certain expenditures made by the Adjutant General. This section also allows the Adjutant General's designee to approve expenditures of the department in lieu of the Adjutant General. SECTION 2. Effective Date: September 1, 2003, unless the Act receives the necessary votes for immediate effect.