Sec. 1231.063.  DEBT AFFORDABILITY STUDY.  (a)  The board, in consultation with the Legislative Budget Board, shall annually prepare a study regarding the state's current debt burden by:
(1)  analyzing the state's historical debt use and financial and economic resources to determine the amount of additional not self-supporting debt the state can accommodate; and
(2)  monitoring how annual changes and new debt authorizations affect the mechanism described in Subsection (b).
(b)  The study must include a mechanism that can be used to determine, at a minimum, the state's debt affordability and serve as a guideline for debt authorizations and debt service appropriations.  The mechanism must be designed to calculate:
(1)  the not self-supporting debt service as a percentage of unrestricted revenues;
(2)  the ratio of not self-supporting debt to personal income;
(3)  the amount of not self-supporting debt per capita;
(4)  the rate of debt retirement; and
(5)  the ratio of not self-supporting debt service to budgeted or expended general revenue.
(c)  Not later than February 15 of each year, the board shall submit the annual study to:
(1)  the governor;
(2)  the comptroller;
(3)  the presiding officer of each house of the legislature; and
(4)  the Senate Committee on Finance and House Appropriations Committee.
(d)  The annual study submitted under Subsection (c) must include a target and limit ratio for not self-supporting debt service as a percentage of unrestricted revenues.
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 991 (S.B. 1332), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2007.
Amended by: 
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1416 (S.B. 2064), Sec. 2, eff. June 19, 2009.