§ 114.013.Report

The chapter ends by making its own cost visible.

Every state agency reports before January 1 of each even-numbered year. The timing puts the numbers in hand as the next legislative session opens.

The report goes to the governor, the comptroller, and each house of the legislature.

What is reported is the cost of defense — the agency’s own and the office of the attorney general’s — in an adjudication brought under a contract subject to this chapter.

The amount claimed in any pending adjudication goes in as well, so the report shows exposure alongside expense.

Reporting defense cost is unusual and deliberate. The chapter waived immunity, and the legislature asked to be told what the waiver costs to litigate.

Read with Section 114.011, the reports tell the whole fiscal story: what defending these claims costs, what is being claimed, and what the legislature would have to appropriate to pay a judgment.

The reports make the waiver measurable. Together they show how often these claims are brought, what is being demanded, and what the state spends answering them.

Chapter 111 carries the companion duty. The attorney general reports on settlements that may need legislative consent, and these agency reports cover the litigation that produces them.