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TASSCUBO BUDGET COMMITTEE Senate Bill 5 Summer Meeting Hyatt Lost Pines, Lost Pines, Texas July 26, 2011. Update on Senate Bill 5 Reducing Unfunded Mandates, Regulations, and State Reporting Requirements. Status of Report Reduction Effort. Meeting held on October 29, 2010, Attendees:
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TASSCUBOBUDGET COMMITTEESenate Bill 5Summer MeetingHyatt Lost Pines, Lost Pines, TexasJuly 26, 2011
Update on Senate Bill 5 Reducing Unfunded Mandates, Regulations, and State Reporting Requirements
Status of Report Reduction Effort Meeting held on October 29, 2010, Attendees: Rissa Potter, CPUPC THECB Planning and Accountability Staff University of North Texas Texas Tech UT Austin Budget (representing TASSCUBO and Budget Committee) UT Austin Information Management and Analysis (representing Texas Association of Institutional Research – TAIR) Legislative Budget Board UT System – Governmental Relations
Status of Report Reduction Effort (continued) Action Taken: Created Three Lists of Reports: Reports that can be eliminated immediately Reports that should be eliminated through a “sunset” process Reports that should be retained (short list!)
Senate Bill 5 – Zaffirini/Branch Article 6 – Reports; Records; Audits; Notices Section 6.03 – Expiration of certain reporting requirements for higher education on September 1, 2013, unless specifically required by 83rd Legislature (“sunset”). Article 9 - Repealer Section 9.01 – Lists specific reports repealed as of September 1, 2011.
Senate Bill 1179 – Nelson/Harper-Brown Section 25 – Repeals Specific Report Legislation
Report Reduction Highlights SB 1179 – Reports Repealed, effective 9/1/2011 Small Class Report, Crime Statistics Report, Report on Doctoral Programs, Matching Scholarship Report, etc SB 5 – Exempts Higher Education, effective 9/1/2011 Non-Financial Report, Annual Debt Report, Consultant Contract Notification, General Contracts over $14K, etc REVISIONS - Legislative Appropriations Request (LAR) – LBB, Governor, and institutions to review and improve LAR.
Report Reduction Highlights SB 5 – Section 9.01 Repeals Reports, effective 9/1/2011 Expert Witness Report, Faculty Report (CBM 008), Timely Graduation Report, Uniform Recruitment and Retention Strategy Report, etc
Summary of Senate Bill 5 Sections 1.01to 1.08 – Financial Management Sections 2.01 to 2.07– Goods and Services (Purchasing and Procurement) Sections 3.01 to 3.04 – Human Resources/Payroll Sections 4.01 to 4.05 –Real Estate and Construction Sections 5.01 to 5.04 – Board Appointments Sections 6.01 to 6.14 – Reports, Records, Audits, Notices Section 7.01 – Student Fee Advisory Committees Section 8.01 to 8.03 – Health Science Center Section 9.01 to 9.04 - Repealer