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1		-	By: Price (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) H.B. No. 2463
2		-	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2017;
3		-	May 9, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Business &
4		-	Commerce; May 17, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:
5		-	Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 17, 2017, sent to printer.)
6		-	Click here to see the committee vote
	1	+	H.B. No. 2463
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9		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	4		AN ACT
11	5		relating to requiring state agencies to develop written succession
12	6		plans.
13	7		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	8		SECTION 1. Chapter 321, Government Code, is amended by
15	9		adding Section 321.024 to read as follows:
16	10		Sec. 321.024. STATE AGENCY'S SUCCESSION PLAN. (a) In this
17	11		section, "state agency" has the meaning assigned by Section
18	12		651.011.
19	13		(b) The State Auditor shall include in the State Auditor's
20	14		annual report on classified employee turnover:
21	15		(1) a list of each state agency that has submitted a
22	16		written succession plan under Section 651.011 to the State Auditor
23	17		and each state agency that has failed to submit a written succession
24	18		plan under that section; and
25	19		(2) a thorough and comprehensive summary of the types
26	20		and extent of succession planning completed by state agencies.
27	21		SECTION 2. Chapter 651, Government Code, is amended by
28	22		adding Section 651.011 to read as follows:
29	23		Sec. 651.011. SUCCESSION PLAN. (a) In this section, "state
30	24		agency" means a department, board, commission, or other agency in
31	25		the executive branch of state government. The term does not include
32	26		an institution of higher education, as defined by Section 61.003,
33	27		Education Code.
34	28		(b) A state agency shall develop a written succession plan:
35	29		(1) identifying and developing mechanisms to ensure
36	30		the transfer of institutional knowledge from experienced and
37	31		retiring employees who are not appointed by the governor or the
38	32		governing body of the state agency to succeeding employees; and
39	33		(2) identifying the skills and abilities necessary for
40	34		the development of the succeeding employees.
41	35		(c) At least annually, the state agency shall update the
42	36		written succession plan developed under Subsection (b). The updated
43	37		written succession plan must include a report on the implementation
44	38		of the mechanisms, skills, and abilities identified and developed
45	39		in the previous written succession plan.
46	40		(d) A state agency shall include in the state agency's
47	41		legislative appropriations request a provision stating whether the
48	42		state agency has developed a written succession plan as required by
49	43		Subsection (b).
50	44		(e) Not later than September 1 of each year, a state agency
51	45		shall submit the written succession plan required under Subsection
52	46		(b) to the state auditor and post the written succession plan on the
53	47		state agency's Internet website.
54	48		SECTION 3. Not later than September 1, 2018, a state agency
55	49		under Section 651.011, Government Code, as added by this Act, shall
56	50		submit the agency's initial succession plan as required by that
57	51		section.
58	52		SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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	53	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	54	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	55	+	I certify that H.B. No. 2463 was passed by the House on May 5,
	56	+	2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not
	57	+	voting.
	58	+	______________________________
	59	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	60	+	I certify that H.B. No. 2463 was passed by the Senate on May
	61	+	24, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
	62	+	______________________________
	63	+	Secretary of the Senate
	64	+	APPROVED: _____________________
	65	+	Date
	66	+	_____________________
	67	+	Governor