81R10857 MTB-F
By: Pitts H.B. No. 4582
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the powers and duties of the Legislative Budget Board,
including the receipt of reports by the board.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 316, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 316.010 to read as follows:
Sec. 316.010. ADJUSTING THE COMPOSITION OF FUND AND ACCOUNT
BALANCES. (a) The comptroller may, as necessary to ensure
compliance with the limit on the rate of growth of appropriations
prescribed by Section 22, Article VIII, Texas Constitution, adjust
the composition of fund and account balances without making any net
change in the amount of a fund or account balance and without
changing the amount of an appropriation.
(b) The comptroller shall report any adjustment made under
Subsection (a) to the Legislative Budget Board.
SECTION 2. Section 2054.102(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The Legislative Budget Board may specify procedures for
the submission, review, approval, and disapproval of biennial
operating plans and amendments, including procedures for review or
reconsideration of the Legislative Budget Board's disapproval of a
biennial operating plan or biennial operating plan amendment. [The
Legislative Budget Board shall review and approve or disapprove the
biennial operating plan or biennial operating plan amendment not
later than the 60th day after the date the plan or amendment to the
plan is submitted. The plan or amendment to the plan is considered
to be approved on the 61st day after the date the plan or amendment
is submitted if the Legislative Budget Board does not disapprove
the plan or amendment before that date.]
SECTION 3. Section 19.0041, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 19.0041. EVALUATION OF TRAINING SERVICES. (a) To
evaluate the effectiveness of training services provided to persons
confined or imprisoned in the department, the Windham School
District shall consult with the Criminal Justice Legislative
Oversight Committee [Legislative Budget Board] to compile and
analyze information for each person who receives the training
services. This information shall include an evaluation of:
(1) the kind of training services provided;
(2) the kind of employment the person obtains on
release;
(3) whether the employment was related to training;
(4) the difference between the amount of the person's
earnings on the date employment is obtained following release and
the amount of those earnings on the first anniversary of that date;
and
(5) the retention factors associated with the
employment.
(b) The district [Legislative Budget Board] shall submit an
annual report to the Criminal Justice Legislative Oversight
Committee, [legislature and] the governor's office, and the
Legislative Budget Board based on data compiled and analyzed under
Subsection (a).
SECTION 4. Not later than December 1, 2009, the Windham
School District shall submit the first report to the Criminal
Justice Legislative Oversight Committee, the governor's office,
and the Legislative Budget Board as required by Section 19.0041(b),
Education Code, as amended by this Act.
SECTION 5. Section 322.016(b), Government Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.