Estimated Two-year Net Impact to General Revenue Related Funds for SB5, Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted: an impact of $0 through the biennium ending August 31, 2027.
The bill would appropriate from the Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF) to Trusteed Programs within the Office of the Governor for the two-year period beginning the effective date of this Act:
(1) $240,000,000 for federal disaster funding match and for disaster needs of the state;
(2) $50,000,000 for grants to local governments in certain counties to purchase a system of flood warning sirens and rain gauges; and
(3) $28,000,000 for grants for enhanced atmospheric measurement and modeling techniques.
Contingent on the enactment of H.B. 3 or similar legislation, the bill would appropriate $50,000,000 from the ESF to the Texas Interoperability Council for the two-year period beginning the effective date of this Act to implement provisions of H.B. 3.
Contingent on the failure to enact H.B. 3 or similar legislation, the bill would transfer $50,000,000 from the ESF to GR Account 5153 – Emergency Radio Infrastructure, and would appropriate $50,000,000 from that GR Account to Trusteed Programs within the Office of the Governor for the two-year period beginning the effective date of this Act for the Governor's interoperable radio communications program.
The bill would take effect on the later of; the earliest date on which it may take effect under Section 14, Article IV, Texas Constitution, or September 1, 2025, and only if it receives a vote of two-thirds of the members present in each house of the legislature, as provided by Section 49-g(m), Article III, Texas Constitution.