Government Efficiency, Interim - 72nd R.S. (1991)
Committee Members
Charges
- Review operations of state agencies as a basis for evaluating potential improvements in operations, including increased efficiency, reduced costs, enhanced managerial accountability and administrative control, and improved information management, and identify specific areas of potential savings.
- Adopt, coordinate, monitor and review an annual "Interagency Performance Auditing Strategic Workplan" to insure the maximum use of state funds and eliminate duplication; the workplan shall coordinate allocation of resources, scheduling of staff, timing of agency audits, areas and typoes of audits to be performed and the due dates for reports.
- Monitor and oversee implementation of legislation ecacted by the 72nd Legislature that was considered by the Senate Committee on Finance, the House Committee on Appropriations, or the House Committee on Ways and Means; monitor and oversee implementation of all performance audit review recommendations of the Texas Performance Review team, whether adopted by the legislature or not; and monitor and oversee agency initiatives.
- Verify the number and status of outputs and outcomes identified in HB1, 72nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, and otherwise determine whether programs that are the focus of study are functioning as planned.
- Identify and review agencies' existing performance standards and determine whether the agencies have met, exceeded or failed to meet those standards.
- Verify the number of employees in each program that is the focus of study, and monitor and oversee documentation of all agency salary actions, including position reclassifications, merit salary increases and other salary increases resulting from legislative or agency-initiated action.
- Monitor implementation of sunset legislation and identify specific goals the state must attain by the year 2000 and biennial goals that must be achieved until that time.
Notes
Membership information is from the committee record in the Texas Appointment System and from House Speaker Lewis Appointments L1801.1 P926a 1985-92 2.
No report was issued.
Bruce Gibson (Co-chair) resigned 1/31/1992. Layton Black appointed Co-chair by the Speaker in a letter dated 6/22/1992.
Appointed by the Speaker and the Lieutenant Governor 10/3/1991.
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