Texas Occupations Code 1105.005 – Records; Reporting Requirements
(a) The agency shall keep financial and statistical information as necessary to disclose completely and accurately the financial condition and results of operations of the agency.
(b) Before the beginning of each regular session of the legislature, the agency shall submit to the legislature and the governor a report describing all of the agency’s activities in the previous biennium. The report must include:
(1) an audit as required by Section 1105.004;
(2) a financial report of the previous fiscal year, including reports on the financial condition and results of operations;
(3) a description of all changes in fees imposed on regulated persons;
(4) a report on changes in the regulatory jurisdiction of the agency;
(5) a report on the number of examination candidates, license, certificate, and registration holders, and enforcement activities and any changes in those figures; and
(6) a list of all new rules adopted or repealed.
Terms Used In Texas Occupations Code 1105.005
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
- Year: means 12 consecutive months. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) In addition to the reporting requirements of Subsection (b), not later than November 1 of each year, the agency shall submit to the governor, the committee of each house of the legislature that has jurisdiction over appropriations, and the Legislative Budget Board a report that contains:
(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 agency, including trend performance data for the preceding five fiscal years;
(3) the agency’s operating plan covering a period of two fiscal years;
(4) the agency’s operating budget, including revenues and a breakdown of expenditures by program and administrative expense, 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, or registration issued by the agency;
(K) the average time to issue a license, certificate, or registration;
(L) litigation costs, broken down by administrative hearings, judicial proceedings, and outside counsel costs; and
(M) reserve fund balances.