By: Price (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) H.B. No. 2463
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2017;
May 9, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Business &
Commerce; May 17, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 17, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring state agencies to develop written succession
plans.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 321, Government Code, is amended by
adding Section 321.024 to read as follows:
Sec. 321.024. STATE AGENCY'S SUCCESSION PLAN. (a) In this
section, "state agency" has the meaning assigned by Section
651.011.
(b) The State Auditor shall include in the State Auditor's
annual report on classified employee turnover:
(1) a list of each state agency that has submitted a
written succession plan under Section 651.011 to the State Auditor
and each state agency that has failed to submit a written succession
plan under that section; and
(2) a thorough and comprehensive summary of the types
and extent of succession planning completed by state agencies.
SECTION 2. Chapter 651, Government Code, is amended by
adding Section 651.011 to read as follows:
Sec. 651.011. SUCCESSION PLAN. (a) In this section, "state
agency" means a department, board, commission, or other agency in
the executive branch of state government. The term does not include
an institution of higher education, as defined by Section 61.003,
Education Code.
(b) A state agency shall develop a written succession plan:
(1) identifying and developing mechanisms to ensure
the transfer of institutional knowledge from experienced and
retiring employees who are not appointed by the governor or the
governing body of the state agency to succeeding employees; and
(2) identifying the skills and abilities necessary for
the development of the succeeding employees.
(c) At least annually, the state agency shall update the
written succession plan developed under Subsection (b). The updated
written succession plan must include a report on the implementation
of the mechanisms, skills, and abilities identified and developed
in the previous written succession plan.
(d) A state agency shall include in the state agency's
legislative appropriations request a provision stating whether the
state agency has developed a written succession plan as required by
Subsection (b).
(e) Not later than September 1 of each year, a state agency
shall submit the written succession plan required under Subsection
(b) to the state auditor and post the written succession plan on the
state agency's Internet website.
SECTION 3. Not later than September 1, 2018, a state agency
under Section 651.011, Government Code, as added by this Act, shall
submit the agency's initial succession plan as required by that
section.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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