By:  Turner                                           H.B. No. 2094
       73R6242 RJA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to abolition of certain dedicated funds and establishment
    1-3  of an interim study committee on those funds.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 403.094(h), Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        (h)  Unless specifically reenacted by the 74th Legislature,
    1-8  all <All> funds or special accounts in the state treasury in
    1-9  existence on August 31, 1995, established by state statute
   1-10  dedicating state revenue for a particular purpose or entity are
   1-11  abolished on that date, and all statutory dedications of state
   1-12  revenue, other than statutory dedications enacted to comply with
   1-13  state constitutional or federal requirements, enacted before that
   1-14  date are null and void as of that date.  This subsection does not
   1-15  abolish a dedication of revenue <that is reenacted by the
   1-16  legislature after September 1, 1991, or> that is expressly exempted
   1-17  or excluded from the application of this subsection.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  Not later than September 1, 1993, the 73rd
   1-19  Legislature and the governor shall establish an interim study
   1-20  committee composed of three senators appointed by the lieutenant
   1-21  governor, three state representatives appointed by the speaker of
   1-22  the house of representatives, and three persons appointed by the
   1-23  governor.  The committee shall study and review the feasibility of
   1-24  maintaining statutorily and constitutionally dedicated funds and
    2-1  shall make appropriate recommendations to the 74th Legislature not
    2-2  later than February 1, 1995.  The committee shall recommend
    2-3  constitutional amendments for those constitutionally dedicated
    2-4  funds that the committee determines should be abolished.  This
    2-5  section expires February 1, 1995.
    2-6        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-7  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-8  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-9  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-10  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-11  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-12  passage, and it is so enacted.