84R8187 CJC-D
By: Turner of Collin H.B. No. 1650
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the legislative appropriations request process for the
Texas Department of Transportation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 322.008, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) The director shall, as appropriate, organize the
proposed appropriations for the Texas Department of Transportation
in the manner and include the content required under Section
201.119, Transportation Code.
SECTION 2. Section 201.119, Transportation Code, is amended
by adding Subsections (c), (d), (e), and (f) to read as follows:
(c) Notwithstanding Section 401.042, Government Code, the
department shall develop a zero-based legislative appropriations
request for every third state fiscal biennium that includes:
(1) a citation to:
(A) the department's authority under the Texas
Constitution to operate; and
(B) the law specifying the department's purpose
or mission; and
(2) a list of the department's requests for
legislative appropriations organized by program or activity.
(d) For each specific program or activity described by
Subsection (c)(2), the department must include:
(1) a line item that describes the program or activity
and the purpose of the program or activity and cites the law that
authorizes or requires the program or activity;
(2) a statement of the commission's goals for the
program or activity;
(3) the appropriation made for the program or activity
for the state fiscal biennium preceding the state fiscal biennium
for which the requested appropriation is made;
(4) the amount of the requested appropriation;
(5) a statement that specifies whether the requested
appropriation for the program or activity is from nondedicated
money in the general revenue fund, dedicated money in the general
revenue fund, the state highway fund, federal money, or another
source;
(6) the number of full-time equivalent employees
authorized for the program or activity for the state fiscal
biennium preceding the state fiscal biennium for which the
requested appropriation is made and the number of full-time
equivalent employees for the biennium that would be authorized
under the requested appropriation;
(7) an itemized account of expenditures required to
maintain the minimum level of service required by law to be provided
through the program or activity and a succinct statement of the
quantity and quality of services provided at that minimum level;
and
(8) an itemized account of expenditures required to
maintain the current level of service provided through the program
or activity and a succinct statement of the quantity and quality of
services provided at the current level.
(e) Line items described by Subsection (d)(1) must be
grouped together according to the level in the department's
organizational structure at which budgetary authority for the
program or activity represented by a line item is exercised by a
manager who has authority over the department's finances.
(f) For each legislative appropriations request made in the
manner required by Subsection (c), the commission shall develop and
submit to the Legislative Budget Board a ranking of the programs and
activities represented by the line items according to the relative
importance of each program and activity to the overall goals and
purposes of the department and the commission.
SECTION 3. (a) Section 322.008, Government Code, as
amended by this Act, applies beginning with the general
appropriations bill prepared for the 2018-2019 state fiscal
biennium.
(b) The Texas Department of Transportation shall develop
and submit a zero-based legislative appropriations request as
required by Section 201.119, Transportation Code, as amended by
this Act, beginning with the department's legislative
appropriations request for the 2018-2019 state fiscal biennium.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.