By: Keffer (Senate Sponsor - Birdwell) H.B. No. 2362
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2013;
May 9, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
Resources; May 17, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 1;
May 17, 2013, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2362 By: Estes
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the efficiency review of river authorities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 49, Water Code, is amended
by adding Section 49.1991 to read as follows:
Sec. 49.1991. EFFICIENCY REVIEW OF RIVER AUTHORITIES. A
district that is a river authority is subject to an efficiency
review by the Legislative Budget Board.
SECTION 2. Chapter 322, Government Code, is amended by
adding Section 322.0171 to read as follows:
Sec. 322.0171. EFFICIENCY REVIEW OF RIVER AUTHORITIES. (a)
The board periodically may review and analyze the effectiveness and
efficiency of the policies, management, fiscal affairs, and
operations of a river authority.
(b) The board shall report the findings of a review and
analysis to the governor and the legislature.
(c) Until the board has completed a review and analysis
under this section, all information, documentary or otherwise,
prepared or maintained in conducting the review and analysis or
preparing the review report, including intra-agency and
interagency communications and drafts of the review report or
portions of those drafts, is excepted from required public
disclosure as audit working papers under Section 552.116. This
subsection does not affect whether information described by this
subsection is confidential or excepted from required public
disclosure under a law other than Section 552.116.
SECTION 3. The Legislative Budget Board shall conduct an
efficiency review authorized by Section 322.0171, Government Code,
as added by this Act, of both the Lower Colorado River Authority and
the Brazos River Authority and report the findings of the review and
analysis to the governor and the legislature not later than
December 31, 2015.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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