By Hirschi                                            H.B. No. 1839
       74R5203 SMH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to appropriations to an institution of higher education
    1-3  for energy costs.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 51.927, Education Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Subsections (j) and (k) to read as follows:
    1-7        (j)  For an institution that has entered into a contract
    1-8  under this section that is in effect, the legislature shall base
    1-9  the institution's appropriation for energy costs during a fiscal
   1-10  year on the sum of:
   1-11              (1)  the institution's estimated energy costs for that
   1-12  fiscal year; and
   1-13              (2)  the institution's estimated net savings resulting
   1-14  from the contract during the contract term, divided by the number
   1-15  of years in the contract term.
   1-16        (k)  For an institution that has entered into a contract
   1-17  under this section that is no longer in effect, the legislature
   1-18  shall base the institution's appropriation for energy costs during
   1-19  a fiscal year on the sum of:
   1-20              (1)  the institution's estimated energy costs for that
   1-21  fiscal year; and
   1-22              (2)  50 percent of the institution's estimated savings
   1-23  in energy costs for that fiscal year resulting from energy
   1-24  conservation measures provided under the contract.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-2        (b)  This Act does not apply to an appropriation enacted
    2-3  before the effective date of this Act, without regard to the period
    2-4  for which the appropriation is made.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.