By:  Montford                                          S.B. No. 278
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to an emergency appropriation to the Texas Air Control
    1-2  Board and a transfer of funds to the general revenue fund.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  In addition to amounts previously appropriated
    1-5  for the current fiscal biennium, the sum of $2,928,000 is
    1-6  appropriated for the period ending August 31, 1993, from the clean
    1-7  air fund to the Texas Air Control Board for the purpose of
    1-8  conducting field and emission inventory studies to support
    1-9  development of cost-effective, federally required ozone control
   1-10  plans for ozone nonattainment areas.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  If the balance of the clean air fund on
   1-12  August 31, 1993, is less than $18,406,638, an amount equal to the
   1-13  difference between $18,406,638 and the actual balance shall be
   1-14  transferred from the dedicated clean air account to the unobligated
   1-15  general revenue fund by the comptroller of public accounts on
   1-16  September 1, 1993, or as soon as practical thereafter.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-22  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-23  passage, and it is so enacted.