By: Price H.B. No. 2463
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
 
  relating to requiring state agencies to develop written succession
  plans.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 321, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Section 321.024 to read as follows:
         Sec. 321.024.  STATE AGENCY'S SUCCESSION PLAN. (a)  In this
  section, "state agency" has the meaning assigned by Section
  651.011.
         (b)  The State Auditor shall include in the State Auditor's
  annual report on classified employee turnover:
               (1)  a list of each state agency that has submitted a
  written succession plan under Section 651.011 to the State Auditor
  and each state agency that has failed to submit a written succession
  plan under that section; and
               (2)  a thorough and comprehensive summary of the types
  and extent of succession planning completed by state agencies.
         SECTION 2.  Chapter 651, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Section 651.011 to read as follows:
         Sec. 651.011.  SUCCESSION PLAN. (a)  In this section, "state
  agency" means a department, board, commission, or other agency in
  the executive branch of state government. The term does not include
  an institution of higher education, as defined by Section 61.003,
  Education Code.
         (b)  A state agency shall develop a written succession plan:
               (1)  identifying and developing mechanisms to ensure
  the transfer of institutional knowledge from experienced and
  retiring employees who are not appointed by the governor or the
  governing body of the state agency to succeeding employees; and
               (2)  identifying the skills and abilities necessary for
  the development of the succeeding employees.
         (c)  At least annually, the state agency shall update the
  written succession plan developed under Subsection (b). The updated
  written succession plan must include a report on the implementation
  of the mechanisms, skills, and abilities identified and developed
  in the previous written succession plan.
         (d)  A state agency shall include in the state agency's
  legislative appropriations request a provision stating whether the
  state agency has developed a written succession plan as required by
  Subsection (b).
         (e)  Not later than September 1 of each year, a state agency
  shall submit the written succession plan required under Subsection
  (b) to the state auditor and post the written succession plan on the
  state agency's Internet website.
         SECTION 3.  Not later than September 1, 2018, a state agency
  under Section 651.011, Government Code, as added by this Act, shall
  submit the agency's initial succession plan as required by that
  section.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.