The Executive Branch in Texas

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The Executive Branch in Texas

Cindy Casey Brown

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2019

 

The Texas Plural Executive

Governor

 

Lieutenant Governor

 

Attorney General

 

Comptroller of Public Accounts

 

Commissioners of the General Land Office

 

Secretary of State

The Texas Governor

gov.texas.gov

 

 

Qualifications to be Texas Governor

Order of Succession

Impeachment of Texas Governor

Formal Roles of Texas Governor

Constitutional Powers of Texas Governor

Chief Legislator

“Chief Financial Officer”

Commander in Chief of Texas

Chief Executive Officer

http://gov.texas.gov/appointments/positions

 

Chief Law Enforcement Officer

Governor can grant one time reprieve.

Board of Pardons and Paroles

https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/bpp/

Reprieve = temporary stay of execution.

Commutation = lessening of a penalty assessed for the commission of a crime.

Pardon = excusing of a crime.

 

Other Positions in the Texas Executive Branch

 

Texas Lieutenant Governor

Dan Patrick

https://www.ltgov.state.tx.us/

 

Texas Attorney General

Ken Paxton

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/

 

Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

Glenn Hegar

http://comptroller.texas.gov/

Unclaimed Property – check it!!!

 

Texas Agricultural Commissioner

https://www.texasagriculture.gov/

 

Texas General Land Commissioner

http://www.glo.texas.gov/

 

 

 

Texas Secretary of State

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/

 

 

 

 

Texas Adjutant General

Major General Tracy Norris

https://tmd.texas.gov/office-of-the-adjutant-general

 

 

Board, Commissions, and Regulatory Agencies

Texas Railroad Commission

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Texas State Board of Insurance

Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission

LIST:

https://www.tsl.texas.gov/apps/lrs/agencies/index.html

 

The Texas Bureaucracy

The Texas Comptroller

http://comptroller.texas.gov/

 

The Texas Budget

Planning and Preparation

Authorization and Appropriations

Governor’s Approval

 

 

 

 

 

The following slides contain content verbatim from Texas Transparency – www.texastransparency.org

 

Budget: Planning and Preparation

Each state agency prepares a Legislative Appropriations Request (LAR) – this itemizes the funding each agency feels it needs – and includes performance measures designed to demonstrate the money will be used effectively and appropriately.

 

LARs sent to Legislative Budget Board (LBB), Comptroller, and Governor’s Office in late summer / early fall.

 

The LBB and the Governor’s Office of Budget, Planning and Policy hold hearings on their content.

 

In the fall before the session, LBB uses the LARs as a basis to prepare a draft of the state’s general appropriations bill, which will provide state agencies and institutions with funding for the following two fiscal years.

 

At the beginning of the legislative session, the Comptroller’s office issues its biennial revenue estimate (BRE), a careful estimate of the funds likely to be available from taxes and other revenue sources over the next two years. The Texas Constitution makes the BRE a cap on legislative spending for this period.

 

Budget: Authorization and Appropriations

Both the Texas House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Finance Committee hold hearings on the general appropriations bill, and make changes to it reflecting the BRE’s limits and their funding priorities.

 

When the committees complete their versions of the bill, they send them to the full House and Senate, respectively, for approval.

 

 

These two bills then go to a conference committee made up of members of both the House and Senate, which resolves their differences to produce a single bill reflecting the wishes of both bodies.

 

Both houses then vote on this bill.

 

Once approved, it goes to the Comptroller’s office for “certification,” a formal statement from the Comptroller that the bill spends no more than the amounts reflected in the BRE.

 

Budget: Governor’s Approval

The bill then faces a final hurdle, the governor’s signature. Texas has a “line-item veto,” allowing the governor to trim individual spending items from the bill as he or she sees fit. (This veto can be overridden a two-thirds majority vote in each house, but in practice the governor’s decisions are rarely challenged.)

 

Once signed, the bill becomes law, directing the state’s finances for two more years.

 

Texas Legislature Online

Budget is House Bill 1 – it originates in the House since it is raising revenue.

 

Texas Budget: Texas Legislature Online

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/84R/billtext/pdf/HB00001F.pdf#navpanes=0

 

GOVERNOR’S LINE ITEM VETOES

http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/scanned/vetoes/84/hb1.pdf#navpanes=0