By: Nelson S.B. No. 2396
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the repeal of obsolete or redundant reporting
requirements of health and human services agencies.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. ABOLITION OF REDUNDANT OR OBSOLETE REPORTS.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, each report
required of a health and human services agency under a state law
before the effective date of this act is abolished on the date
prescribed in this act if the governor, lieutenant governor,
speaker of the house of representatives, and the presiding officers
of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, House Human
Services Committee, and House Public Health Committee or their
successors determine that the report is:
(1) no longer required to accomplish the objectives of
the statute under which it was required; or
(2) redundant of other statutory reporting
requirements.
(b) A report required of a health and human services agency
under a state law before the effective date of this act is not
abolished if the report is:
(1) required by federal law;
(2) applicable to state agencies other than health and
human services agencies; or
(3) as determined by the executive commissioner of the
Health and Human Services Commission, required for the
implementation of a duty prescribed under a state law with an
effective date on or after the effective date of this act.
(c) No later than December 1, 2009, the executive
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall:
(1) identify which reports should be considered for
abolition under Subsection (a) of this act and report such
recommendations to the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of
the house or representatives, and the presiding officers of the
Senate Health and Human Services Committee, House Human Services
Committee, and the House Public Health Committee for their
consideration. The recommendations shall include a summary of the
report and the justification for the recommendations.
(2) The executive commissioner shall provide a copy of
the recommendations to the State Auditor's Office, the Legislative
Budget Board, and the Library and Archives Commission.
(3) The executive commissioner shall publish the list
of reports recommended for abolition in the Texas Register and on
the agency website.
(d) If, not later than February 1, 2010, any of the
officials identified in subsection (a) object to the recommendation
of a specific report for abolition, the report shall not be
abolished and shall continue in effect without change.
(1) Any report for which there is no such objection is
abolished effective February 1, 2010.
(2) The executive commissioner shall publish the list
of reports that are abolished under subsection (a) of this act in
the Texas Register.
(e) A report that is required by a statute with an effective
date on or after the effective date of this act is exempt from
abolition under Subsection (a) of this act.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2009.