S.B. 775 78(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


S.B. 775
By: Averitt
Government Reform
Committee Report (Unamended)



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

TexasOnline is a Web-based portal supported through a public-private
partnership that provides services online to state and local governments
and citizens.  Agency initiatives to market these services could improve
citizen access to government services while increasing state revenues.
S.B. 775 requires state agencies with TexasOnline services to assist the
TexasOnline Authority with marketing. 


RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any
rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or
institution. 
  

ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 2054.111, Government Code, by amending
Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (g), as follows: 

(d)  Requires a state agency that uses, rather than chooses to use, the
TexasOnline Project to comply with rules adopted by the Department of
Information Resources, including rules regarding certain factors. 

(g)  Requires a state agency that uses the project to assist the
TexasOnline Authority with marketing efforts regarding the use of the
project.  

SECTION 2.  Amends Section 2054.125, Government Code, by adding Subsection
(d), to require each stat agency that maintains a generally accessible
Internet site and that uses TexasOnline to include a link to TexasOnline
on the front page of the site. 

SECTION 3.  Amends Chapter 2054I, Government Code, as added by Chapter
342, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, by adding
Section 2054.268, as follows: 

Sec.  2054.268.  MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATIONS.  Provides that for the
purposes of this chapter, the renewal of a motor vehicle registration is a
state service. 

SECTION 4.  Effective Date.


EFFECTIVE DATE

Upon passage or September 1, 2003.