Bill Text: TX HB689 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to comparisons of state budgets made by the Legislative Budget Board.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-21 - Referred to Appropriations [HB689 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB689-Introduced.html
| 86R4951 SRA-D | ||
| By: Frank | H.B. No. 689 | |
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| relating to comparisons of state budgets made by the Legislative | ||
| Budget Board. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 322, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Section 322.0082 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 322.0082. BUDGET COMPARISONS. (a) This section | ||
| applies only to a publicly available report or other document | ||
| prepared by the board that compares appropriations made for one | ||
| state fiscal biennium or year with the appropriations made for one | ||
| or more other state fiscal bienniums or years. | ||
| (b) The board in a report or other document to which this | ||
| section applies shall ensure that a consistent accounting | ||
| methodology is used for purposes of the report or document by | ||
| adjusting the reported amount of appropriations made by the | ||
| legislature to a state agency or institution as necessary so that | ||
| the appropriations made for each of the state fiscal bienniums or | ||
| years being compared reflect the approved accounting methodology | ||
| for the latest of the state fiscal bienniums or years being | ||
| compared. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
