BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 1271 By: Martinez Fischer Technology Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently, bills published on the Texas Legislature Online website do not contain hyperlinks to statutory provisions referenced in the bill. As a result, the public has to manually look up such provisions, and interested parties contend that, in addition to being inconvenient and time-consuming, this process is prone to error. H.B. 1271 seeks to make finding the content of cross-referenced statutes in bills easier and more accurate. 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 H.B. 1271 amends the Government Code to require the Texas Legislative Council to the extent feasible, if the full text of a house or senate bill as filed, amended, substituted, engrossed, or enrolled includes a state statute section cross-reference or if the full text of an amendment or substitute adopted by a legislative committee for a filed house or senate bill includes a state statute section cross-reference, to include in any electronic version of the applicable document made available to the public through the Internet an electronic link or other method by which a person reading the document may automatically access the text of the referenced section. EFFECTIVE DATE November 1, 2014.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 1271
By: Martinez Fischer
Technology
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 1271
By: Martinez Fischer
Technology
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently, bills published on the Texas Legislature Online website do not contain hyperlinks to statutory provisions referenced in the bill. As a result, the public has to manually look up such provisions, and interested parties contend that, in addition to being inconvenient and time-consuming, this process is prone to error. H.B. 1271 seeks to make finding the content of cross-referenced statutes in bills easier and more accurate.
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 H.B. 1271 amends the Government Code to require the Texas Legislative Council to the extent feasible, if the full text of a house or senate bill as filed, amended, substituted, engrossed, or enrolled includes a state statute section cross-reference or if the full text of an amendment or substitute adopted by a legislative committee for a filed house or senate bill includes a state statute section cross-reference, to include in any electronic version of the applicable document made available to the public through the Internet an electronic link or other method by which a person reading the document may automatically access the text of the referenced section.
EFFECTIVE DATE November 1, 2014.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Currently, bills published on the Texas Legislature Online website do not contain hyperlinks to statutory provisions referenced in the bill. As a result, the public has to manually look up such provisions, and interested parties contend that, in addition to being inconvenient and time-consuming, this process is prone to error. H.B. 1271 seeks to make finding the content of cross-referenced statutes in bills easier and more accurate.
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
H.B. 1271 amends the Government Code to require the Texas Legislative Council to the extent feasible, if the full text of a house or senate bill as filed, amended, substituted, engrossed, or enrolled includes a state statute section cross-reference or if the full text of an amendment or substitute adopted by a legislative committee for a filed house or senate bill includes a state statute section cross-reference, to include in any electronic version of the applicable document made available to the public through the Internet an electronic link or other method by which a person reading the document may automatically access the text of the referenced section.
EFFECTIVE DATE
November 1, 2014.