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.