86R8244 TJB-D
By: Davis of Harris H.B. No. 1299
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring the comptroller of public accounts to
establish and maintain a political subdivision disaster
expenditure database.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 403.0243 to read as follows:
Sec. 403.0243. POLITICAL SUBDIVISION DISASTER EXPENDITURE
DATABASE. (a) In this section:
(1) "Disaster" has the meaning assigned by Section
418.004.
(2) "Political subdivision" means a county,
municipality, school district, junior college district, other
special district, or other subdivision of state government.
(b) The comptroller shall establish and maintain on the
Internet an electronically searchable database that contains the
following information for each political subdivision:
(1) the total amount budgeted by the political
subdivision for disaster preparedness, response, rebuilding, and
mitigation in the most recent fiscal year of the political
subdivision that is complete;
(2) the total amount spent by the political
subdivision for disaster preparedness, response, rebuilding, and
mitigation in the most recent fiscal year of the political
subdivision that is complete; and
(3) the total amount received by the political
subdivision for disaster preparedness, response, rebuilding, and
mitigation in the most recent fiscal year of the political
subdivision that is complete from the following categories, stated
as a total amount and a per category amount:
(A) the federal government;
(B) the state government;
(C) another public entity, including another
political subdivision; and
(D) a private entity, including an insurance
company or nonprofit charitable organization.
(c) The comptroller shall update the information in the
database for a political subdivision not later than the 45th day
after the date on which the comptroller receives a report from the
political subdivision under Subsection (d).
(d) Each political subdivision shall, at the close of the
political subdivision's fiscal year, prepare and file with the
comptroller an annual report that contains for that fiscal year the
information described by Subsection (b). Each political
subdivision must file the report required by this subsection in a
form and in the manner prescribed by the comptroller. The
comptroller shall prepare a form for the report required by this
subsection.
(e) The comptroller shall establish procedures and adopt
rules to implement this section.
SECTION 2. The comptroller of public accounts shall:
(1) prepare and make available the form required by
Section 403.0243(d), Government Code, as added by this Act, not
later than October 1, 2019; and
(2) establish and post on the Internet the database
required by Section 403.0243, Government Code, as added by this
Act, not later than September 1, 2020.
SECTION 3. The first report required of a political
subdivision under Section 403.0243(d), Government Code, as added by
this Act, must be filed with the comptroller of public accounts at
the close of the political subdivision's 2019 fiscal year.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.