Urgent Call to Action - Elimination of TBPLS Appropriations (April 3, 2013)
Am I correct in understand that the board requires additional operational funds above and beyond license fees?
Didn't they try this last year as well?
> Am I correct in understand that the board requires additional operational funds above and beyond license fees?
No, the licensing fees that the TBPLS collects are required to be paid into the General Revenue Fund like an occupation tax. Then, the legislature appropriates a fraction of the license fees collected to fund the actual operation of the TBPLS. Defunding the TBPLS is merely a way to keep all the money and then shunt some minimal function of the board to some other little fiefdom that will in effect bid to do it for even less. This whole topic is political in Texas, unfortunately.
I wish you all well with this as quite a few state boards are faced with this on a regular basis, especially when general funds wish to grab money from special-funded agencies.
Whatever you do, don't sell it as benefiting the profession. Focus on the negative impact this will have on the consumers of Texas. Check and see if this has occurred with other agencies and check into how well enforcement, etc. has progressed if at all with the change.
It's the Biennel Session of Texas Congress!
Guard your wallets, ladies and gents!
"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session." -Judge Gideon J. Tucker
It's the Biennel Session of Texas Congress!
At least in Arkansas we make sure our GIS folks have plenty of dough...
Act 196
[sarcasm](A)For improvements, updating and initiating automation of the
Statewide Parcel Map, in a sum not to exceed $61,000,000.[/sarcasm]
DDSM:beer:
All of the license fees for Kentucky's licensure board stays in their coffers until the bean counters come in and grab handfuls at about a quarter million a pop. Even with their own money, they are still limited by legislation on how they can spend their money. When the minimum standards changed recently, the board wanted to send a copy to all the licensees but it did not happen for governmental oversight reasons.
**Biennial
Got a phone call and meeting with boss while typing and missed the opportunity to correct my spelling.
Year before last they tried to eliminate the BOR (TBPLS) and the TSPS/TBPLS rallied to at least consolidate us with the Engineers and Architects. It was sabre rattling by the Guv to look like he was performing cost cutting measures. The action died.
It's the Biennel Session of Texas Congress!
> Guard your wallets, ladies and gents!
>
> "No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session." -Judge Gideon J. Tucker
Didn't the judge steal that from Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)?B-)
Upon further research, apparently the judge did it first and some have inaccurately attributed it to Clemens.
