78R19254 JRD-D
Suspending limitations on conference committee
jurisdiction, S.B. No. 1000
By: West S.R. No. 1029
R E S O L U T I O N
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 78th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, That Senate Rule 12.03 be
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the
conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on Senate
Bill No. 1000, relating to a statistical or demographic analysis
conducted by the Texas Legislative Council for a state agency and to
information collected by the council in the course of performing
the analysis, to consider and take action on the following matters:
(1) Senate Rule 12.03(2) is suspended to permit the
committee to omit the section of the bill that adds Section
2113.108, Government Code, which reads as follows:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 2113, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 2113.108 to read as follows:
Sec. 2113.108. CERTAIN STUDIES INVOLVING STATISTICAL OR
DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS. (a) A state agency may not use appropriated
money to contract with a consultant or other nongovernmental entity
to perform or assist the agency in performing a statistical or
demographic analysis of information collected by or for the agency
in the course of conducting a study that the agency is required to
conduct under state law unless the agency first contacts the Texas
Legislative Council to determine whether the resources of the
council are available to perform or assist the agency in performing
that analysis. For purposes of this section, performing a
statistical or demographic analysis of information in the course of
conducting a study includes designing the analysis and collecting
the information required for purposes of the study.
(b) If the Texas Legislative Council determines that
council resources are available to perform or assist the state
agency in performing all or part of the statistical or demographic
analysis, the agency must contract with the council to perform or
assist the agency in performing that analysis to the extent that the
council determines that council resources are available to the
agency.
Explanation: It is necessary to omit the text to ensure that
under the bill state agencies may, but are not required to, contract
with the Texas Legislative Council to perform certain statistical
or demographic analyses.
(2) Senate Rule 12.03(1) is suspended to permit the
committee to alter text in proposed Section 323.020, Government
Code, so that Section 323.020(b) reads as follows:
(b) At the request of a state agency, the council may
determine whether and the extent to which council resources are
available to contract or otherwise agree with the agency to perform
a statistical or demographic analysis of information for the agency
or to assist the agency in performing the analysis. A reference in
this section to performing an analysis includes assisting an agency
to perform the analysis.
Explanation: It is necessary to alter the text to remove
references to the omitted Section 2113.108 and to clarify that
references to performing an analysis include references to
assisting an agency to perform an analysis.