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.