BILL ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 1488

By: Dean

State Affairs

Committee Report (Substituted)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

It has been suggested that indefinite reporting requirements are unreasonable and impose too great an administrative burden on state agencies. C.S.H.B. 1488 seeks to relieve some of this burden by exempting an agency from an indefinite reporting requirement after the 10th anniversary of the submission of the first report to the legislature.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

C.S.H.B. 1488 amends the Government Code to exempt an applicable state agency from a requirement to submit to the legislature a report for which state law prescribes an indefinite reporting period after the 10th anniversary of the date the agency first submitted the report to the legislature. The bill requires an agency to state in each such report the date after which the agency is not required to submit the report to the legislature due to that exemption.

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2021.

COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE

C.S.H.B. 1488 differs from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways to make technical corrections.