Sec. 2166.104. BIENNIAL REPORT ON REQUESTED PROJECTS

(a) On or before a date specified by the state's budget agencies in each year immediately preceding a regular session of the legislature, the commission shall send to the budget agencies a report listing all projects requested under Subchapter D.

(b) The report must contain:

(1) a brief and specific justification prepared by the using agency for each project;

(2) a summary of the project analysis or, if the analysis was not made, a statement briefly describing the method used to estimate costs for the project;

(3) a project cost estimate developed in accordance with Subchapter D, detailed enough to allow the budget agencies, the governor, and the legislature the widest possible latitude in developing policy regarding each project request;

(4) an estimate, prepared by the commission with the cooperation of both the using agency and any private design professional retained, of the annual cost of maintaining the completed project, including the estimated cost of utility services; and

(5) an estimate, prepared by the using agency, of the annual cost of staffing and operating the completed project, excluding maintenance cost.

(c) If appropriate, the commission, with the using agency's approval, may indicate:

(1) the feasibility of stage construction of a requested project; and

(2) the degree to which money will be required in the next biennium if the project is undertaken in stages.

(d) If a using agency requests three or more projects, it shall designate its priority rating for each project. The budget agencies shall, with the commission's cooperation, develop detailed instructions to implement the priority system required by this subsection. The commission's report must show the designated priority of each project to which a priority rating has been assigned.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 41, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.