(a) An agency shall submit to the legislature and the governor by the first day of the regular session of the legislature a report describing all of the agency's activities in the previous biennium. The report shall include:
(1) an audit required by Section 472.103 ;
(2) a financial report of the previous fiscal year;
(3) a description of any changes in licensing fees;
(4) a report on the number of examination candidates, licensees, certificate holders, and enforcement activities and any changes in those figures; and
(5) a description of all new rules adopted or repealed.
(b) In addition to the reporting requirements of Subsection (a), each agency shall report annually, not later than November 1, to the governor, to the committee of each house of the legislature that has jurisdiction over appropriations, and to the Legislative Budget Board the following:
(1) the salary for all agency personnel and the total amount of per diem expenses and travel expenses paid for all agency employees, including trend performance data for the preceding five fiscal years;
(2) the total amount of per diem expenses and travel expenses paid for each member of the governing body of each agency, including trend performance data for the preceding five fiscal years;
(3) each agency's operating plan covering a period of two fiscal years;
(4) each agency's operating budget, including revenues and a breakdown of expenditures by program and administrative expenses, showing:
(A) projected budget data for a period of two fiscal years; and
(B) trend performance data for the preceding five fiscal years; and
(5) trend performance data for the preceding five fiscal years regarding:
(A) the number of full-time equivalent positions at the agency;
(B) the number of complaints received from the public and the number of complaints initiated by agency staff;
(C) the number of complaints dismissed and the number of complaints resolved by enforcement action;
(D) the number of enforcement actions by sanction type;
(E) the number of enforcement cases closed through voluntary compliance;
(F) the amount of administrative penalties assessed and the rate of collection of assessed administrative penalties;
(G) the number of enforcement cases that allege a threat to public health, safety, or welfare or a violation of professional standards of care and the disposition of those cases;
(H) the average time to resolve a complaint;
(I) the number of license holders or regulated persons broken down by type of license and license status, including inactive status or retired status;
(J) the fee charged to issue and renew each type of license, certificate, permit, or other similar authorization issued by the agency;
(K) the average time to issue a license;
(L) litigation costs, broken down by administrative hearings, judicial proceedings, and outside counsel costs; and
(M) reserve fund balances.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1552, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Sec. 14 amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 939, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001; Sec. 15(b) amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 939, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2001; Sec. 4(a) amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 367, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003; Sec. 4(c) amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 367, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003; Sec. 6(c) amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 367, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2003; Sec. 14(c) added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 367, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 2003; Sec. 14(d) added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 367, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 2003; Sec. 18 added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 367, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Transferred, redesignated and amended from Vernon's Civil Statutes, Art/Sec 8930 by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 150 (H.B. 1685 ), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.
