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By:  Barrientos                                                           S.B. No. 148



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to requiring state agencies to create subcommittees on 
strategic planning, auditing, and operations.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Chapter 2056, Government Code, is amended by 
adding Section 2056.012 to read as follows:
	Sec. 2056.012.  SUBCOMMITTEES ON AUDITS, STRATEGIC 
PLANNING, AND OPERATIONS.  (a)  The governing body of each state 
agency shall appoint from among the members of the governing body 
one subcommittee to review audits of the agency, one subcommittee 
to review the agency's strategic planning, and one subcommittee to 
review the agency's operations.
	(b)  The subcommittees shall meet regularly, either in 
conjunction with meetings of the state agency's governing body or 
separately.
	(c)  The presiding officer of the governing body may not 
serve on the audit subcommittee.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.