Senate Committee on Finance - 74th R.S. (1995)

• Title:

  Interim report

  Document type:

  Report

  Subjects:

  Child care | Computer networks | Data management | Federal funds | Federal government | Higher education | Higher education affordability | Information Resources, Texas Department of | Medicaid | State budgets | Telecommunications infrastructure | Tuition | University budgets | University finance | Welfare | Welfare reform |

  Library Call Number:

  L1836.74 f49f

  Description:

  [272 pages]

  Charges:

  1. To evaluate the impact on Texas government finance resulting from proposed changes in federal funding mechanisms and to make recommendations to implement changed funding mechanisms.
  2. To monitor implementation of tuition and student use fee increases, HB 815, 74th R.S. and HB 1792, 74th R.S., by higher education institutions. The Committee shall issue a report identifying the impacts and uses of tuition and student use fee increases.
  3. To evaluate use of emerging telecommunication infrastructure for efficiencies in collection and disbursement of state funds and to evaluate the impact of technology and its effect on the demand for state appropriations.

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• Title:

  Interim report - Selected state agency performance

  Document type:

  Report

  Subjects:

  State agencies | State agency budgets | State budgets |

  Library Call Number:

  L1836. 74 f49

  Description:

  [64 pages  File size: 5,057 kb]

  Charges:

  1. Identify instances of excess appropriations and monitor forecasted unexpended balances of fiscal year 1996 appropriations, evaluating the reasons for such balances. This inquiry should focus on the major projected unexpended balances such as those at the Department of Health, Texas Department of Human Services, and Texas Department of Criminal Justice including managed health costs for inmates.
  2. Evaluate for the period from 1986 to present the caseload, enrollment and population estimating methodologies used by state agencies and institutions to form the basis of their legislative appropriation requests and make recommendations to improve those methodologies and allow the Legislature to make interim adjustments in appropriations based on inaccurate estimates.
  3. Monitor Assessment of Agency Performance as indentified by the Legislative Budget Board staff for major agencies and institutions and recommend ways to further enhance the state's performance based budgeting system including enhanced use of rewards for compliance and sanctions for noncompliance with established performance measures, such as those establishing graduation rates and target employment caps.

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• Title:

  Committee and subcommittee I, II, and III documentation: daily minutes record

  Document type:

  Supporting document

  Library Call Number:

  L1803.9 F49 74

  Description:

  [4 pages  File size: 69 kb]

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