HBA-DMD, TYH H.B. 1912 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1912 By: Cuellar State Affairs 7/27/1999 Enrolled BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The 76th Legislature passed legislation to create an interagency working group on unfunded mandates. The working group identifies any unfunded mandates adopted by the legislature and issues a report enumerating those unfunded mandates. There is no effect of the report, other than to notify state leaders of the impact of legislative actions on political subdivisions. The statute as it formerly existed did not include in the definition of unfunded state mandates a reduction in appropriated funds for a mandated service that the legislature historically provides funding for. H.B. 1912 directs the interagency working group on unfunded mandates to include, along with new mandates that are not funded, old funded mandates that are no longer funded, in the currently required list of unfunded mandates adopted by the legislature. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 320.001(2), Government Code, to delete "state mandate" and replace it with "mandate," retaining the same definition. SECTION 2. Amends Section 320.003(a), Government Code, by creating Subdivision (1) from existing text and adding Subdivision (2), as follows: (2) Requires the interagency workgroup to add, to the list of mandates for which the legislature has not provided reimbursement, a mandate from a previous legislative session for which reimbursement was provided in the previous session but for which reimbursement was not provided in the most recent regular session or in any subsequent special sessions. SECTION 3.Effective date: September 1, 1999. SECTION 4.Emergency clause.