Texas Department Of Government Efficiency Is An Eight-Member Committee

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89R9166 GP-D

By: Metcalf
H.B. No. 2106

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the establishment of an advisory committee to study and

provide recommendations to state agencies on ways to increase

efficiency at the agencies.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subtitle C, Title 10, Government Code, is

amended by adding Chapter 2117 to read as follows:

CHAPTER 2117. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY

Sec. 2117.001. ESTABLISHMENT AND NAME OF ADVISORY

COMMITTEE. (a) An advisory committee is established to study and

make recommendations to each state agency in the executive branch

of state government on ways to increase the efficiency with which

the agency operates.

(b) The advisory committee shall be referred to as the Texas

Department of Government Efficiency.

Sec. 2117.002. COMPOSITION OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE. (a) The

advisory committee is composed of the following eight members:

(1) two members appointed by the governor;

(2) two members appointed by the lieutenant governor;

(3) two members appointed by the speaker of the house

of representatives;

(4) the chair of the senate committee on finance; and

(5) the chair of the house committee on

appropriations.

(b) In making appointments to the advisory committee under

Subsection (a):

(1) the governor may:

(A) appoint two public members to the committee;

or

(B) appoint one public member to the committee

and elect to serve as a member of the committee;

(2) the lieutenant governor may:

(A) appoint two public members to the committee;

or

(B) appoint one public member to the committee

and:

(i) elect to serve as a member of the

committee; or

(ii) appoint a member of the senate to the

committee; and

(3) the speaker of the house of representatives may:

(A) appoint two public members to the committee;

or

(B) appoint one public member to the committee

and:

(i) elect to serve as a member of the

committee; or

(ii) appoint another member of the house of

representatives to the committee.

Sec. 2117.003. TERMS; VACANCY. (a) Members of the advisory

committee serve two-year terms.

(b) A vacancy on the advisory committee shall be filled in

the same manner as the original appointment. A member appointed to

fill a vacancy on the committee shall serve for the remainder of the

unexpired term.

Sec. 2117.004. PRESIDING OFFICER. (a) If the governor

serves as a member of the advisory committee, the governor is the

presiding officer of the committee.

(b) If the governor is not a member of the advisory

committee, the governor shall appoint one member of the committee

to serve as the committee's presiding officer.

(c) The presiding officer of the advisory committee serves a

two-year term.

Sec. 2117.005. MEETINGS. The advisory committee shall meet

at the call of the committee's presiding officer.

Sec. 2117.006. REIMBURSEMENT FOR EXPENSES. Members of the

advisory committee serve without compensation but are entitled to

reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in

performing official duties under this chapter.

Sec. 2117.007. PURPOSE OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE. The advisory

committee is established to:

(1) study the operation of each state agency in

accordance with a schedule adopted by the committee to identify

ways to increase the efficiency with which the agency operates;

(2) recommend to each state agency that is the subject

of a study described by Subdivision (1) ways of increasing the

agency's operational efficiency identified by the committee during

the study; and

(3) prepare and submit the report required by Section

2117.008.

Sec. 2117.008. ADVISORY COMMITTEE REPORT. Not later than

December 1 of each even-numbered year, the advisory committee shall

prepare and submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, and

each member of the legislature a report that includes:

(1) the name of each state agency studied by the

committee under Section 2117.007(1) during the two-year period

preceding the date of the report and the recommendations made to

each of those agencies under Section 2117.007(2); and

(2) any proposed legislation prepared by the committee

related to the information described by Subdivision (1) or any

other matter the committee determines is relevant to the efficient

operation of state agencies.

Sec. 2117.009. APPLICATION OF OTHER LAW. Chapter 2110 does

not apply to the advisory committee.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives

a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as

provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this

Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this

Act takes effect September 1, 2025.