By: Dean, Raymond H.B. No. 1488
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to state agency reports submitted to the legislature.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2052.0021, Government Code, is amended
by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) Notwithstanding a law that requires a state agency to
submit a report to the legislature for an indefinite period, a state
agency may request that the Sunset Advisory Commission recommend to
the legislature that the requirement to submit the report be
discontinued by legislation to be considered at the legislature's
next regular session on or after the 10th anniversary of the date
the state agency first submitted the report to the legislature.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.