Texas Government Code Title 3, Chapter 316 - Appropriations

SUBCHAPTER A LIMIT ON GROWTH OF APPROPRIATIONS

• Texas Section 316.001 - Limit
  The rate of growth of appropriations in a biennium from state tax revenues not dedicated by the constitution may not exceed the estimated rate of...
• Texas Section 316.002 - Duties Of Legislative Budget Board
  (a) Before the Legislative Budget Board submits the budget as prescribed by Section 322.008(c), the board shall establish: (1) the estimated rate of growth of...
• Texas Section 316.003 - Publication
  Before the Legislative Budget Board approves the items of information required by Section 316.002, the board shall publish in the Texas Register the proposed items...
• Texas Section 316.004 - Public Hearing
  Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year, the Legislative Budget Board shall hold a public hearing to solicit testimony regarding the proposed items...
• Texas Section 316.005 - Adoption By Committee
  (a) After the Legislative Budget Board approves the items of information required by Section 316.002, the board shall submit the information to a committee composed...
• Texas Section 316.006 - Limit On Budget Recommendations
  Unless authorized by majority vote of the members of the board from each house, the Legislative Budget Board budget recommendations relating to the proposed appropriations...
• Texas Section 316.007 - Transmission Of Recommendations
  (a) The Legislative Budget Board shall include in its budget recommendations the proposed limit of appropriations from state tax revenues not dedicated by the constitution....
• Texas Section 316.008 - Effect Of Limit; Enforcement
  (a) Unless the legislature adopts a resolution under Article VIII, Section 22(b), of the Texas Constitution raising the proposed limit on appropriations, the proposed limit...

SUBCHAPTER B REFERENCES TO GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT

• Texas Section 316.009 - Submission Of Bill By Governor
  The governor may prepare a general appropriation bill and submit printed copies of it to the lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and...
• Texas Section 316.011 - Legislative Intent
  It is the intent of the legislature that references in law to a specific article of the General Appropriations Act be by article title only....

SUBCHAPTER C APPROPRIATIONS BILLS

• Texas Section 316.012 - Construction Of Reference
  If a statute enacted or last amended before 1982 refers by number to an article of the General Appropriations Act, the reference means the article...
• Texas Section 316.021 - Introduction Of Appropriations Bills
  The lieutenant governor or the speaker of the house may cause the general appropriations bills prepared by the governor and by the director of the...
• Texas Section 316.022 - Committee Hearings
  (a) Hearings on the appropriations bills prepared by the director of the Legislative Budget Board and by the governor shall be conducted by the House...
• Texas Section 316.023 - Authorization To Find Fact
  The governor may find any fact specified by the legislature in an appropriation Act as a contingency for the expenditure of a designated item of...

SUBCHAPTER D APPROPRIATION OF UNOBLIGATED FUND BALANCES TO GENERAL REVENUE FUND

• Texas Section 316.024 - Procedure For Finding Fact
  (a) The governor shall make a finding of fact under Section 316.023 from the evidence as it exists at the time of the determination. (b)...
• Texas Section 316.031 - Legislative Finding And Intent
  (a) The legislature finds that, to ensure the efficient operation of state agencies and to provide for the necessary costs of state government operation, it...
• Texas Section 316.032 - Conflicting Laws Suspended
  (a) Any law that provides specific purposes for which a fund or revenue source may be used and expended and that restricts the use of...

SUBCHAPTER E ADJUSTMENT OF STATE FEES IN GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT

• Texas Section 316.033 - Funds Excluded
  This subchapter applies to funds established by state law, but does not apply to any portion of a fund derived from constitutionally dedicated revenues or...
• Texas Section 316.041 - Legislative Finding And Intent
  (a) The legislature finds that, to ensure the efficient operation of state agencies and institutions of higher education and to allow for the assessment of...
• Texas Section 316.042 - Application Of Subchapter
  (a) This subchapter applies to all fees not set by the Texas Constitution, but does not apply to fees that are dedicated to pay bonded...
• Texas Section 316.043 - Amount Of Fee
  (a) The amount of a fee covered by this subchapter is the amount specified for that fee in the General Appropriations Act. Fee adjustments authorized...
• Texas Section 316.044 - Hearings On Fee Increases At Institutions Of Higher Education
  Fees at institutions of higher education may not be increased unless a public hearing is held on the increase. Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg.,...

SUBCHAPTER G FISCAL YEAR

• Texas Section 316.045 - Reduction In Certain Agency Fees
  (a) Each state agency that sets the fees charged by that agency in amounts that are reasonable and necessary to cover the administrative costs of...
• Texas Section 316.071 - Fiscal Year; Appropriations
  (a) The state fiscal year ends on August 31 of each year. (b) Appropriations of state government shall conform to this fiscal year. Added by...

SUBCHAPTER H PRESERVATION OF SUFFICIENT BALANCE IN

• Texas Section 316.072 - Reports; Closure Of Accounts
  (a) All officers required by law to report annually or biennially to the legislature or governor shall close their accounts at the end of the...
• Texas Section 316.091 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "fund" means the economic stabilization fund. Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., 3rd C.S., Ch. 1 (H.B. 1), Sec. 3. For expiration...
• Texas Section 316.092 - Determination Of Sufficient Fund Balance
  (a) Not later than September 1 of each even-numbered year preceding the year in which this section expires as provided by Subsection (e), the speaker...
• Texas Section 316.093 - Adjustment Of Constitutional Allocations To Fund And State Highway Fund
  (a) Before the comptroller makes transfers for a state fiscal year in accordance with Section 49-g(c), Article III, Texas Constitution, the comptroller shall determine whether...
• Texas Section 316.094 - Allocation Of Certain Amounts Transferred To State Highway Fund
  Amounts transferred to the state highway fund under Section 49-g(c), Article III, Texas Constitution, when appropriated, must be used and allocated throughout the state by...

Last modified: September 28, 2016