Texas 2019 - 86th Regular

Texas House Bill HB1400 Latest Draft

Bill / Comm Sub Version Filed 05/06/2019

                            86R26435 YDB-D
 By: Hefner H.B. No. 1400
 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1400:
 By:  Cyrier C.S.H.B. No. 1400


 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to monthly reports on preservation, maintenance, and
 restoration expenses for the Alamo complex.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 31, Natural Resources
 Code, is amended by adding Section 31.4535 to read as follows:
 Sec. 31.4535.  MONTHLY EXPENSE REPORTS. (a) The land office
 and any other state agency that in any month uses money appropriated
 or donated to the agency by a public or private entity to pay an
 expense incurred by the agency during the preceding month for the
 preservation, maintenance, or restoration of the Alamo or Alamo
 complex shall prepare a monthly report detailing the expense.
 (b)  A report required by Subsection (a) must be submitted in
 the format required by the land office not later than the third
 business day of the month following the month in which an expense
 under that subsection is incurred.  The report must include:
 (1)  the date the expense was incurred;
 (2)  the amount charged;
 (3)  the name of the vendor who billed for the expense;
 and
 (4)  a brief description of the expense.
 (c)  The land office shall post each monthly report submitted
 under this section on the land office's Internet website not later
 than the fifth business day after the date the report is submitted
 by posting a link to the report on the land office's home page.
 SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
 an expense incurred on or after the effective date of this Act.
 SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.