Highlights 77th Texas Legislature - Senate

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plan to include estimates of future aircraft replacement needs and other fleet management needs, including
any projected need to increase or decrease the number of aircraft in the pool. Lays out factors the board
must consider in developing the plan.
Requires the board to post information related to travel and other services provided by the board on an
Internet site. Requires the site to be generally accessible to state agencies, persons who use the board’s
services, and, to the extent appropriate, the general public.
Sunset Review of Certain Agencies - S.B. 309
by Senator Harris
House Sponsor: Representative Bosse
Periodically, state agencies undergo a review by the Sunset Advisory Commission (commission). As a
result of the review, the commission will recommend changes to the agency or the abolishment of the
agency. S.B. 309 sets the review schedule for certain state agencies.
Entities given the Sunset date of 2003 are the Department of Economic Development and Board of Dental
Examiners.
Entities given the Sunset date of 2005 include the Texas Veterans’ Commission, Veterans’ Land Board,
On-Site Wastewater Treatment Research Council, Texas Cosmetology Commission, and State Board of
Barber Examiners.
Entities given the Sunset date of 2007 include the Incentive and Productivity Commission, Risk
Management Board, Texas Real Estate Commission, and Structural Pest Control Board.
Given the Sunset date of 2009 is the Polygraph Examiners Board.
Given the Sunset date of 2011 is the Texas Department of Human Services (DHS).
Requires the commission, in preparing for a report to the 78th Legislature, to perform a special purpose
review of DHS. Provides that in the review, the commission is limited to reviewing the appropriateness of
the recommendations made by the commission to the 76th Legislature regarding DHS. Authorizes the
commission to include any of those prior recommendations the commission considers appropriate.
Requires DHS to cooperate with the commission in the review and provide to the commission any
information the commission considers necessary for the review.
Requires the commission, in preparing for a report to the 78th Legislature, to perform a special purpose
review of the Texas Department of Health (TDH). Authorizes the commission, in the commission's report to
the 78th Legislature, to include any recommendation the commission considers appropriate. Requires TDH
to cooperate with the commission in the review and provide to the commission any information the
commission considers necessary for the review.
Provides that the following entities are removed from Sunset review: the governing board of the Texas
School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, the governing board of the Texas School for the Deaf, Real
Estate Research Center, Texas National Research Laboratory Commission, Governor's Advisory
Committee on Immigration and Refugees, Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Corpus Christi
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