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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to a state agency review and analysis of the revenue |
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sources that pay for the agency's functions and the adjustment by |
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certain agencies of fee amounts. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Chapter 2056, Government Code, is amended by |
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adding Section 2056.0023 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 2056.0023. ANALYSIS OF REVENUE SOURCES. As part of the |
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strategic plan required under Section 2056.002, a state agency |
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shall: |
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(1) review the agency's functions that are paid for |
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wholly by general revenue and determine whether any of those |
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functions could appropriately be paid for wholly or partly by fees |
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or other sources of revenue; |
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(2) review the agency's functions that currently are |
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paid for wholly or partly by sources of revenue other than general |
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revenue, including fee revenue, and determine whether those sources |
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of revenue could appropriately be increased; and |
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(3) for an agency function that the agency determines |
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could appropriately be paid for wholly or partly by charging a new |
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fee or by increasing the amount of an existing fee: |
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(A) recommend the appropriate fee amounts; |
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(B) describe who would pay the new fee or the |
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increased fee; and |
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(C) estimate the amount of revenue that would be |
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received from the recommended fee amounts. |
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SECTION 2. Section 316.045(b), Government Code, is amended |
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to read as follows: |
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(b) If the agency determines that the fees are set at a level |
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that [exceeds the administrative costs of the agency] as of the date |
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of the review exceeds the sum of the direct costs to the agency to |
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provide the services or regulate the activities for which the fees |
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are charged and the indirect costs to state government that could |
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appropriately be allocated to the provision of those services or |
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the regulation of those activities, the agency shall reduce the |
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amount of the affected fees to the appropriate level and shall |
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charge the reduced fees during the subsequent biennium. Each |
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agency shall give specific recognition to reductions in salary |
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expenses resulting from statutorily directed employee attrition. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |