80R1904 JJT-D
 
  By: Hughes H.B. No. 639
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to information included in legislative appropriations
requests of state agencies and in the budgets submitted by the
governor and the Legislative Budget Board.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Section 322.008(c), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
       (c)  Not later than the fifth day after a regular legislative
session convenes, the director shall transmit a copy of the budget
of estimated appropriations prepared by the director to the
governor and each member of the legislature.  The budget must
reflect for each strategic agency objective specific amounts for
sub-strategies identified in the agency's legislative
appropriations request.
       SECTION 2.  Section 401.042(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
       (a)  The governor may collaborate with the Legislative
Budget Board in designing and preparing uniform budget estimate
forms on which all requests for legislative appropriations must be
prepared. The forms must provide for the appropriations requests
to disclose for each broad strategic agency objective specific
sub-strategy information that supports the requested amounts and
that indicates in detail how much the agency intends to spend on
each sub-strategy.
       SECTION 3.  Section 401.0445(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
       (b)  In the budget, the governor shall show:
             (1)  the list of appropriations for the current year
preceding the biennium for which appropriations are sought and
recommended;
             (2)  expenditures for each of the two full years
preceding the current year; and
             (3)  the amounts requested by the various agencies and
the amounts recommended by the governor for each of the years of the
biennium, including for each broad strategic agency objective
specific amounts for the detailed sub-strategies identified in the
agency's legislative appropriations request.
       SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.