82R9169 YDB-D
By: Price H.B. No. 1781
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to obsolete or redundant reporting requirements
applicable to state agencies.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 2052, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subchapter E to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER E. OBSOLETE OR REDUNDANT REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
Sec. 2052.401. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
(1) "Executive director" means the executive head of a
state agency. The term includes an executive director,
commissioner, or executive commissioner as appropriate for the
state agency.
(2) "State agency" means:
(A) a board, commission, department, office, or
other agency in the executive branch of state government that was
created by the constitution or a statute of the state, including an
institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003,
Education Code;
(B) the legislature or a legislative agency; and
(C) the supreme court, the court of criminal
appeals, a court of appeals, or a state judicial agency.
Sec. 2052.402. EXAMINATION OF REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. (a)
Not later than August 1, 2012, the executive director of each state
agency shall:
(1) examine the agency's reporting requirements
established by a state statute enacted before January 1, 2009, and
not amended since that date, and identify each reporting
requirement that the executive director determines:
(A) is not necessary to accomplish the objectives
of the statute that contains the reporting requirement;
(B) is redundant of other statutory reporting
requirements; or
(C) is required under statute to be provided at a
frequency for which data is not available; and
(2) provide to the governor, the lieutenant governor,
the speaker of the house of representatives, and each member of the
senate and house of representatives an electronic report that
includes:
(A) each statutory reporting requirement for
which the executive director made a determination described by
Subdivision (1); and
(B) the justification for the executive
director's determination for each reporting requirement.
(b) The executive director may not include in the initial
report issued under Subsection (a)(2) a reporting requirement that:
(1) is required by federal law; or
(2) also applies to another state agency.
Sec. 2052.403. EXPIRATION. This subchapter expires
September 1, 2014.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.