88R1056 JCG-F
By: Dean H.B. No. 749
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 Subsections (e) and (f) 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:
(1) is not required to submit the report to the
legislature after the 10th anniversary of the date the state agency
first submitted the report to the legislature; and
(2) shall state in each report submitted under the law
requiring the report the date after which the agency is not required
to submit the report to the legislature as provided by Subdivision
(1).
(f) A state agency that elects not to submit a report to the
legislature as authorized by Subsection (e)(1) shall notify the
Texas State Library and Archives Commission, in a form and manner
prescribed by the commission, that the state agency has elected not
to submit the report. The notice must be provided not later than the
date the report would otherwise be due. The commission shall
maintain a publicly available list of the reports state agencies
have elected not to submit under Subsection (e).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.