HBA-TYH H.B. 1912 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1912
By: Cuellar
State Affairs
3/23/1999
Introduced



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 currently exists does 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." 

SECTION 2.  Amends Section 320.003(a), Government Code, by creating
Subdivision (1) from existing text and adding Subsection (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.