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House Bill 1025 |
House Author: Pitts |
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Effective: 6-14-13 |
Senate Sponsor: Williams |
House Bill 1025 makes supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations to various state agencies, programs, and funds; provides transfer authority and other appropriation adjustment authority; and imposes contingencies on the appropriation of funds. Unencumbered appropriations for the 2012-2013 state fiscal biennium from the general revenue fund and from dedicated accounts in the general revenue fund are reduced by approximately $144.5 million. The bill makes supplemental appropriations for the 2012-2013 state fiscal biennium totaling $627.97 million from general revenue, $158.1 million from general revenue dedicated accounts, $1.9 billion from the economic stabilization fund, and $10.35 million from federal funds. The bill makes supplemental appropriations for the 2014-2015 state fiscal biennium totaling $389.6 million from general revenue, $308.8 million in other funds, and $2 billion out of the economic stabilization fund.
The governor vetoed $175 million in a contingent appropriation to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for tuition revenue bond debt service for a bill that did not pass from House Bill 1025, along with $5.25 million in higher education special item funding, $5 million to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and $1 million to the Department of Housing and Community Affairs. The governor also vetoed approximately $325.6 million of bonding authority to the Texas Finance Authority, as well as the appropriation of the related bond proceeds, for the construction of facilities for state agencies and an appropriation of approximately $5.2 million from general revenue for related debt service.