Texas Government Code Title 4, Chapter 401 - Governor And Lieutenant Governor

SUBCHAPTER A INAUGURATION

• Texas Section 401.001 - Inaugural Committee
  (a) Not later than the 10th day after the date of each election for governor and lieutenant governor, the secretary of state shall issue a...
• Texas Section 401.002 - Organization, Powers, And Duties Of Committee
  (a) As soon as possible after the members of the committee have been appointed, they shall convene at a time and place designated by the...
• Texas Section 401.003 - Inaugural Fund
  (a) The inaugural fund is a special fund in the state treasury. Money in the inaugural fund may be appropriated only for expenditures authorized by...
• Texas Section 401.004 - Inaugural Contributions
  (a) A person may contribute funds, services, or other things of value to pay the expenses of or otherwise provide for an inauguration. This contribution...
• Texas Section 401.005 - Expenditures
  (a) Subject to any conditions attached to a particular appropriation, money appropriated from the inaugural fund may be expended for: (1) printing; (2) the employment...
• Texas Section 401.006 - Competitive Bidding
  The committee may not make a contract covered by the competitive bidding requirements of Article XVI, Section 21, of the Texas Constitution unless before awarding...
• Texas Section 401.007 - Records Of Expenditures
  In addition to maintaining records required by law with regard to the expenditure of appropriated funds, the committee shall maintain a record of each expenditure...
• Texas Section 401.008 - Final Report; Dissolution Of Committee
  (a) As soon after the inauguration as the committee determines that it has completed its work and has satisfied its financial obligations, but not later...
• Texas Section 401.009 - Claims Filed After Dissolution
  (a) If after dissolution of the committee a person files with the secretary of state a verified claim for an amount claimed to be due...
• Texas Section 401.010 - Additional State Funding
  In addition to making appropriations from the inaugural fund as authorized by this subchapter, the legislature may appropriate other funds for any purpose for which...

SUBCHAPTER B EMERGENCY INTERIM SUCCESSION

• Texas Section 401.011 - Inaugural Endowment Fund
  (a) To the extent that the balance of the inaugural fund exceeds $100,000 plus the amount necessary to cover fund obligations, on the date the...
• Texas Section 401.021 - Short Title
  This subchapter may be cited as the Emergency Interim Executive Succession Act. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
• Texas Section 401.022 - Definition
  In this chapter, "unavailable" means not able to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office of governor for any reason specified in...
• Texas Section 401.023 - Succession
  (a) If the governor, lieutenant governor, and president pro tempore of the senate are unavailable, the following officers in succeeding order shall exercise the powers...
• Texas Section 401.024 - Term Of Service
  A person acts as governor under this subchapter until a new governor is elected and qualified or until a preceding officer in the order of...

SUBCHAPTER C GOVERNOR'S BUDGET

• Texas Section 401.025 - Exception
  The president pro tempore of the senate or speaker of the house of representatives may act as governor under this subchapter only if the person...
• Texas Section 401.041 - Chief Budget Officer
  The governor is the chief budget officer of the state. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 15, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
• Texas Section 401.042 - Uniform Budget Estimate Forms
  (a) The governor may collaborate with the Legislative Budget Board in designing and preparing uniform budget estimate forms on which all requests for legislative appropriations...
• Texas Section 401.043 - Budget Hearings
  (a) After receiving the appropriation requests, the governor shall hold one or more public hearings concerning the requests. The governor shall preside at each hearing,...
• Texas Section 401.044 - Cooperation With Legislative Budget Board
  (a) The governor and the Legislative Budget Board may cooperate, exchange information, and hold joint public hearings on the biennial appropriation budget. (b) At a...
• Texas Section 401.0445 - Compilation Of The Budget
  (a) The governor shall compile the biennial appropriation budget using information: (1) submitted to the governor in the uniform budget estimate forms; and (2) obtained...
• Texas Section 401.045 - Legislative Expenses
  The governor may not include in the governor's budget or appropriation bill any appropriation for per diem or mileage expenses of members of the legislature...
• Texas Section 401.046 - Distribution Of Budget
  (a) The governor shall deliver a copy of the governor's budget to each member of the legislature before the governor gives the message to the...

SUBCHAPTER D GOVERNOR'S EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS

• Texas Section 401.048 - Annual Budgets
  A reference in this subchapter or in Chapter 322 to a biennial budget or a regular legislative session means an annual budget or an annual...
• Texas Section 401.061 - Appropriations For Emergency
  The legislature may appropriate money to the governor to be used only: (1) in an emergency, including an imperative public necessity; (2) for the executive...
• Texas Section 401.062 - Certification Of Emergency
  (a) The governor may determine that an emergency exists requiring the use of appropriations made under Section 401.061. (b) A governor who makes a determination...
• Texas Section 401.063 - Determination Of Availability Of Money
  (a) After receiving a certification under Section 401.062, the comptroller shall determine whether money other than emergency appropriations is available for purposes of the emergency....
• Texas Section 401.064 - Filing Of Certification
  The governor shall file with the secretary of state and the Legislative Budget Board a copy of the governor's original certification and the returned certification...

SUBCHAPTER E SUCCESSION OF GOVERNOR-ELECT AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR-ELECT

• Texas Section 401.065 - Expenditure For Emergency
  (a) The governor may spend appropriations made under Section 401.061 for the purpose of a certified emergency, but only after: (1) the certification is endorsed...
• Texas Section 401.081 - Succession Of Governor-elect And Lieutenant Governor-elect
  The speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro tem of the senate shall call a joint session of the house of representatives...
• Texas Section 401.082 - Term Of Service As Governor
  The individual who receives the highest number of votes cast by the members of the legislature for governor shall hold that office until the next...

SUBCHAPTER F OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

• Texas Section 401.083 - Term Of Service As Lieutenant Governor
  The individual who receives the highest number of votes cast by members of the legislature for lieutenant governor shall hold that office until the next...
• Texas Section 401.101 - Acceptance Of Gifts, Grants, And Donations By The Governor
  The office of the governor may solicit and accept gifts, grants, and donations of money or property on behalf of the state for any lawful...
• Texas Section 401.102 - Other Gifts
  Unsolicited benefits received by the governor that are prohibited under Section 36.08, Penal Code, may be donated to a governmental entity that has the authority...
• Texas Section 401.103 - Veterans Health Issues
  (a) The governor or the governor's designee may negotiate with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and any other appropriate federal agency on matters...
• Texas Section 401.104 - Governor's Flag
  (a) The governor may adopt a flag for the governor's official use. (b) By executive order published in the Texas Register, the governor shall provide...
• Texas Section 401.105 - Federal Funds Designation
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 487.051 or 487.351, on the written request of the commissioner of agriculture or the administrative head of a state agency designated under...

Last modified: September 28, 2016